Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Coquimbo in Chile

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Coquimbo in Chile. Exact location of event, longitude -72.0228 West, latitude -29.9127 South, depth = 14.27 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 14.27 km (9 miles). Id of earthquake: us600055ei. Event ids that are associated: us600055ei. Global time and date of event 15/08/19 / 2019-08-15 14:23:41 / August 15, 2019 @ 2:23 pm UTC/GMT. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:23:41 / 9:23 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Serena, Coquimbo.

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 two and in the last 365 days eighty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 65 km W of Coquimbo, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-72.0228° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-29.9127° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	14.27 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	65km 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	2019-08-15 14:23:41	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-08-15 14:40:20	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	385	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	0.681	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.09 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	153	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	us600055ei	Id of event.
Event Code	600055ei	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us600055ei,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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