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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag has occurred near Ovalle in Chile


Earthquake location -31.0386S, -71.9092WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was reported 83 kilometers (52 miles) from Ovalle in Chile on Monday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003mgp. Id of event: us20003mgp. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 24.69 km (15 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -71.9092 West, latitude -31.0386 South, depth = 24.69 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 21/09/15 / 2015-09-21 15:37:07 / September 21, 2015 @ 3:37 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 10:37:07 / 10:37 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Monte Patria, Illapel, Ovalle (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 83 km (52 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twelve, in the last 10 days one hundred and thirty-six, in the past 30 days one hundred and thirty-six and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 83 km SW of Ovalle, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.9092° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.0386° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24.69 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 83km 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 2015-09-21 15:37:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-21 16:05:18 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 12 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 436 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 0.433 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 46 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20003mgp Id of event.
Event Code 20003mgp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003mgp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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