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Strong earthquake: M6.6 quake has struck near Coquimbo in Chile


Earthquake location -29.4874S, -72.0913WA earthquake with magnitude 6.6 (ml/mb) was reported 88 kilometers (55 miles) from Coquimbo in Chile on Tuesday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/11/15 / 2015-11-11 01:54:37 / November 11, 2015 @ 1:54 am. The temblor was picked up at 20:54:37 / 8:54 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us10003x8t. Ids that are associated to the event: pt15315051, at00nxmnz2, us10003x8t. Exact location of event, longitude -72.0913 West, latitude -29.4874 South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Coquimbo in Chile (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Serena, Coquimbo.

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days ninety-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. Each year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world.

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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 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: 88 km NW of Coquimbo, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.0913° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -29.4874° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 88km NW of Coquimbo, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-11 01:54:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-11 02:15:12 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 16 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.4 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.84 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 1 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 677 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 ,pt,at,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 0.857 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 97 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwp The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10003x8t Id of event.
Event Code 10003x8t An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt15315051,at00nxmnz2,us10003x8t, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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