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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 84 km W of Ovalle, Chile


Earthquake location -30.631S, -72.0775WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 84 kilometers (52 miles) from Ovalle in Chile. Event id: us10007vi8. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007vi8. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:37:02 / 7:37 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -72.0775 West, latitude -30.631 South, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/01/17 / 2017-01-26 12:37:02 / January 26, 2017 @ 12:37 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ovalle. Earthquake epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 84 km W of Ovalle, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.0775° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -30.631° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 84km 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 2017-01-26 12:37:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-22 12:53:54 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 271 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 1.015 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 178 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 us10007vi8 Id of event.
Event Code 10007vi8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007vi8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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