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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Ovalle in Chile


Earthquake location -30.9551S, -71.4781WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Ovalle in Chile. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Global time and date of event 17/09/15 / 2015-09-17 02:59:29 / September 17, 2015 @ 2:59 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 35 km, -71.4781° West, -30.9551° South. Id of earthquake: us20003ke3. Event ids that are associated: us20003ke3. The temblor was picked up at 23:59:29 / 11:59 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

The epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Illapel, Monte Patria, Ovalle (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: 47 km SSW of Ovalle, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.4781° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -30.9551° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 47km SSW 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 2015-09-17 02:59:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-17 03:18:13 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 369 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.311 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 134 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 us20003ke3 Id of event.
Event Code 20003ke3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003ke3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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