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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag has occurred near Ovalle in Chile


Earthquake location -31.0158S, -73.0478WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 182 km WSW of Ovalle, Chile (113 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 20.54 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 07:49:23 / 7:49 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -73.0478° West, latitude -31.0158° South, depth = 20.54 km. Id of earthquake: us20003mfi. Event ids that are associated: us20003mfi. Global time and date of event 21/09/15 / 2015-09-21 12:49:23 / September 21, 2015 @ 12:49 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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 five, in the last 10 days fourty-seven, in the past 30 days fourty-seven and in the last 365 days fourty-nine 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 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: 182 km WSW of Ovalle, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -73.0478° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.0158° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.54 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 182km 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 2015-09-21 12:49:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-21 13:07:09 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 370 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 1.907 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 156 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 us20003mfi Id of event.
Event Code 20003mfi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003mfi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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