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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Ovalle in Chile

Posted by admin on September 26, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -30.6306S, -72.0394WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Ovalle in Chile on Saturday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 18.6 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:55:32 / 2:55 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/09/15 / 2015-09-26 07:55:32 / September 26, 2015 @ 7:55 am. Exact location of earthquake, -72.0394° West, -30.6306° South, depth 18.6 km. Unique identifier: us20003par. Ids that are associated to the event: us20003par.

Earthquake epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ovalle (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days one hundred and fourty-seven, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourty-eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light 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. 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: 80 km W of Ovalle, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.0394° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -30.6306° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 80km 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 2015-09-26 07:55:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-26 08:13:32 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 312 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 0.351 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 113 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 us20003par Id of event.
Event Code 20003par An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003par, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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