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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Ovalle in Chile

Posted by admin on August 11, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location -30.7431S, -71.5266WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Ovalle in Chile on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us6000njhw. Event ids that are associated: us6000njhw. Exact location of earthquake, -71.5266° West, -30.7431° South, depth 67.008 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 67.008 km (42 miles). The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:21:17 / 4:21 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 11/08/24 / 2024-08-11 16:21:17 / August 11, 2024 @ 4:21 pm UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Serena, Coquimbo, Monte Patria. Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 90 km (56 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 35 km WSW of Ovalle, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.5266° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -30.7431° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 67.008 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35 km WSW of Ovalle, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-08-11 16:21:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-11 16:38:55 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 385 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 63 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.116 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 63 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000njhw Id of event.
Event Code 6000njhw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000njhw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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