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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag strikes near Ovalle in Chile

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A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was reported 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Ovalle in Chile on Tuesday. Event id: us7000nu8n. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nu8n. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 51.195 km (32 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/11/24 / 2024-11-26 12:33:09 / November 26, 2024 @ 12:33 pm. The temblor was reported at 12:33:09 / 12:33 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -71.3548° West, latitude -30.4512° South, depth = 51.195 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vicuña, La Serena, Coquimbo. Event epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Vicuña (c. 13 500 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 22 km NW of Ovalle, Chile.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-71.3548° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-30.4512° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	51.195 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	22 km NW 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	2024-11-26 12:33:09	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-11-26 12:45:14	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	400	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	47	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.328	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.79 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	112	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us7000nu8n	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nu8n	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nu8n,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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