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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 70 km W of Ovalle, Chile


Earthquake location -30.5362S, -71.9326WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Ovalle in Chile. Unique identifier: us1000axtw. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000axtw. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/10/17 / 2017-10-27 20:38:53 / October 27, 2017 @ 8:38 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -71.9326 West, latitude -30.5362 South, depth = 21.74 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 15:38:53 / 3:38 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 21.74 km (14 miles).

The epicenter was 86 km (54 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Coquimbo, Ovalle. Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days sixty-four 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.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 70 km W of Ovalle, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.9326° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -30.5362° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.74 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70km 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 2017-10-27 20:38:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-27 22:11:27 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 0.29 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 118 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 us1000axtw Id of event.
Event Code 1000axtw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000axtw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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