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Moderate earthquake, 5.8 mag has occurred near Ovalle in Chile


Earthquake location -30.6454S, -71.368WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Ovalle in Chile. The epicenter was at a depth of 46.37 km (29 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 16:25:04 / 4:25 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 46.37 km, -71.368° West, -30.6454° South. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/12/15 / 2015-12-19 19:25:04 / December 19, 2015 @ 7:25 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us100048du. Unique identifier: us100048du.

The epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 111 km (69 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Vicuña (c. 13 500 pop). Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Illapel, Vicuña, La Serena (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 16 km WSW of Ovalle, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.368° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -30.6454° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 46.37 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km 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 2015-12-19 19:25:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-19 19:53:55 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -180 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 18 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5.7 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 528 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 0.231 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 58 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 us100048du Id of event.
Event Code 100048du An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100048du, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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