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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Ovalle in Chile


Earthquake location -30.5538S, -72.1302WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 89 kilometers (55 miles) from Ovalle in Chile on Thursday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/09/15 / 2015-09-24 22:36:16 / September 24, 2015 @ 10:36 pm. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:36:16 / 5:36 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 14.3 km (9 miles). Event id: us20003nu6. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003nu6. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -72.1302° West, -30.5538° South, depth 14.3 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ovalle (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days one hundred and twenty-five, in the past 30 days one hundred and twenty-six and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 89 km W of Ovalle, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.1302° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -30.5538° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 89km W 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 2015-09-24 22:36:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-24 22:55:58 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 312 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 0.443 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 89 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 us20003nu6 Id of event.
Event Code 20003nu6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003nu6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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