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Moderate earthquake: M5.2 quake has struck near Ovalle in Chile


Earthquake location -30.6487S, -71.8578WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Ovalle in Chile. The temblor was picked up at 09:11:33 / 9:11 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 22.07 km (14 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/05/16 / 2016-05-11 13:11:33 / May 11, 2016 @ 1:11 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -71.8578 West, latitude -30.6487 South, depth = 22.07 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us10005gih. Unique identifier: us10005gih.

Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Serena, Coquimbo, Monte Patria.

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 one, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days four hundred and ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 63 km W of Ovalle, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.8578° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -30.6487° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22.07 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63km W 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 2016-05-11 13:11:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-11 13:30:14 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 416 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 0.193 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 140 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 us10005gih Id of event.
Event Code 10005gih An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005gih, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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