Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Coquimbo in Chile

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Coquimbo in Chile. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us1000hu91. Event ids that are associated: us1000hu91. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -71.4033 West, latitude -29.8937 South, depth = 36.01 km. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:56:55 / 9:56 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 20/11/18 / 2018-11-20 01:56:55 / November 20, 2018 @ 1:56 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 36.01 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 9 km (6 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Vicuña (c. 13 500 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ovalle, Vicuña, La Serena (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifty 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 8 km NW of Coquimbo, Chile.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-71.4033° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-29.8937° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	36.01 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8km NW 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	2018-11-20 01:56:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-11-20 02:23:44	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	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	272	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	0.145	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.94 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	132	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	us1000hu91	Id of event.
Event Code	1000hu91	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000hu91,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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