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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Ovalle in Chile


Earthquake location -31.0615S, -72.0706WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 97 kilometers (60 miles) from Ovalle in Chile. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 30.43 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 15:29:30 / 3:29 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 19/11/15 / 2015-11-19 20:29:30 / November 19, 2015 @ 8:29 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003zmr. Id of event: us10003zmr. Exact location of event, depth 30.43 km, -72.0706° West, -31.0615° South.

The epicenter was 98 km (61 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ovalle (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days thirty-nine and in the last 365 days four hundred and fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 97 km WSW of Ovalle, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.0706° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.0615° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 30.43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 97km 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 2015-11-19 20:29:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-19 22:21:45 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 326 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 0.538 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.39 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 192 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 us10003zmr Id of event.
Event Code 10003zmr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003zmr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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