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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Coquimbo in Chile


Earthquake location -29.9003S, -71.8994WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Coquimbo in Chile. Event id: us10004sec. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004sec. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15.11 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 24/02/16 / 2016-02-24 19:09:57 / February 24, 2016 @ 7:09 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 14:09:57 / 2:09 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -71.8994 West, latitude -29.9003 South, depth = 15.11 km.

Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Serena, Coquimbo. Epicenter of the earthquake was 54 km (34 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days three hundred and seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 53 km W of Coquimbo, 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 -71.8994° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -29.9003° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53km W 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 2016-02-24 19:09:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-24 20:02:30 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 0.574 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 147 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 us10004sec Id of event.
Event Code 10004sec An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004sec, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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