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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 35 km SW of Ovalle, Chile


Earthquake location -30.7799S, -71.5016WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Ovalle in Chile. Global time and date of event 20/10/15 / 2015-10-20 04:06:54 / October 20, 2015 @ 4:06 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 01:06:54 / 1:06 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 37.58 km (23 miles). Exact location of event, depth 37.58 km, -71.5016° West, -30.7799° South. All ids that are associated to the event: us10003pu9. Unique identifier: us10003pu9.

Event epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Coquimbo, Monte Patria, Ovalle. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).

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

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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: 35 km SW of Ovalle, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.5016° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -30.7799° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37.58 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35km 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 2015-10-20 04:06:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-10-20 04:21:21 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -180 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 340 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 0.156 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 69 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 us10003pu9 Id of event.
Event Code 10003pu9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003pu9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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