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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag was detected near Coquimbo in Chile


Earthquake location -29.7343S, -71.6895WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Coquimbo in Chile. The temblor was picked up at 03:32:46 / 3:32 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 34.29 km (21 miles). Global time and date of event 03/12/15 / 2015-12-03 08:32:46 / December 3, 2015 @ 8:32 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -71.6895° West, latitude -29.7343° South, depth = 34.29 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us100042yl. Unique identifier: us100042yl. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 42 km (26 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop), 107 km (67 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Vicuña (c. 13 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ovalle, Vicuña, La Serena (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days fifty-three and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 41 km NW of Coquimbo, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.6895° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -29.7343° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34.29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km 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 2015-12-03 08:32:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-03 08:52:47 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 416 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 0.432 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 88 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 us100042yl Id of event.
Event Code 100042yl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100042yl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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