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Strong earthquake, 6.5 mag strikes near Coquimbo in Chile


Earthquake location -30.0403S, -72.162WA earthquake magnitude 6.5 (ml/mb) strikes 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Coquimbo in Chile on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 14/06/19 / 2019-06-14 00:19:10 / June 14, 2019 @ 12:19 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -72.162° West, -30.0403° South. The 6.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:19:10 / 7:19 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us600040ja. Ids that are associated to the event: us600040ja. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 80 km (50 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop), 111 km (69 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ovalle, La Serena, Coquimbo (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days seventy-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 79 km W of Coquimbo, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.162° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -30.0403° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 79km W 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 2019-06-14 00:19:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-14 00:32:24 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 5.051 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 650 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 0.778 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 109 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us600040ja Id of event.
Event Code 600040ja An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600040ja, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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