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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag strikes near Illapel in Chile


Earthquake location -31.2428S, -71.9935WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) strikes 89 kilometers (55 miles) from Illapel in Chile on Wednesday. Global time and date of event 17/09/15 / 2015-09-17 04:02:10 / September 17, 2015 @ 4:02 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 19.51 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -71.9935 West, latitude -31.2428 South, depth = 19.51 km. The 5.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:02:10 / 11:02 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us20003kft. Unique identifier: us20003kft.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ovalle, Illapel (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 104 km (65 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 89 km WNW of Illapel, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.9935° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.2428° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19.51 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 89km WNW of Illapel, 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 04:02:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-17 04:20:58 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 432 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 0.645 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 131 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 us20003kft Id of event.
Event Code 20003kft An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003kft, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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