Minor earthquake: M3.7 quake has struck near Ovalle in Chile

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) strikes 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Ovalle in Chile on Monday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 43.02 km (27 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/02/16 / 2016-02-01 03:19:44 / February 1, 2016 @ 3:19 am. Exact location of event, depth 43.02 km, -71.2975° West, -30.6634° South. Id of earthquake: us20004wqx. Event ids that are associated: us20004wqx. The temblor was detected at 00:19:44 / 12:19 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop), 12 km (7 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Serena, Coquimbo, Monte Patria (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days three hundred and sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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: 11 km SW of Ovalle, Chile.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-71.2975° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-30.6634° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	43.02 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11km SW 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	2016-02-01 03:19:44	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-02-02 23:23:40	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-180	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	211	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	0.291	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.53 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	96	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us20004wqx	Id of event.
Event Code	20004wqx	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20004wqx,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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