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Moderate earthquake 5.5 mag, 70 km SW of Ovalle, Chile


Earthquake location -31.0303S, -71.7427WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) was reported 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Ovalle in Chile on Thursday. Exact location of event, longitude -71.7427 West, latitude -31.0303 South, depth = 22.32 km. The temblor was reported at 19:39:20 / 7:39 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 22.32 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/09/15 / 2015-09-17 22:39:20 / September 17, 2015 @ 10:39 pm. Event id: us20003l02. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003l02.

Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Salamanca, Illapel, Monte Patria. Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop), 111 km (69 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-eight, in the last 10 days fifty-eight, in the past 30 days fifty-eight and in the last 365 days seventy-five 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: 70 km SW of Ovalle, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.7427° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.0303° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22.32 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70km SW 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 22:39:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-17 22:59:41 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -180 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 4.15 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 465 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 0.367 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 77 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 us20003l02 Id of event.
Event Code 20003l02 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003l02, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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