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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 34 km WSW of Ovalle, Chile


Earthquake location -30.6753S, -71.5496WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Ovalle in Chile. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/03/16 / 2016-03-25 08:03:20 / March 25, 2016 @ 8:03 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005cdz. Id of event: us20005cdz. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 41.28 km (26 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -71.5496 West, latitude -30.6753 South, depth = 41.28 km. The temblor was reported at 05:03:20 / 5:03 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Serena, Coquimbo, Monte Patria (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 83 km (51 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop), 35 km (21 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 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 fourteen and in the last 365 days four hundred and fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 34 km WSW of Ovalle, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.5496° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -30.6753° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 41.28 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34km 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 2016-03-25 08:03:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-25 08:20:11 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -180 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 340 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 0.073 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 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 mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20005cdz Id of event.
Event Code 20005cdz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005cdz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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