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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Ovalle in Chile


Earthquake location -30.4154S, -72.038WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 82 kilometers (51 miles) from Ovalle in Chile. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20004gas. Id of event: us20004gas. Exact location of earthquake, -72.038° West, -30.4154° South, depth 15.53 km. Global time and date of event 11/12/15 / 2015-12-11 00:18:37 / December 11, 2015 @ 12:18 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 19:18:37 / 7:18 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15.53 km (10 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Coquimbo, Ovalle (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Event epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 82 km WNW of Ovalle, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.038° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -30.4154° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.53 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 82km WNW 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 2015-12-11 00:18:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-11 00:37:42 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 271 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 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 189 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 us20004gas Id of event.
Event Code 20004gas An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20004gas, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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