A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Chonchi in Chile. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 23.58 km (15 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/06/15 / 2015-06-07 06:34:02 / June 7, 2015 @ 6:34 am. Exact location of event, longitude -74.2737 West, latitude -42.9379 South, depth = 23.58 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 02:34:02 / 2:34 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20002qpz. Id of event: us20002qpz.
Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Castro, Puerto Quellón, Chonchi. Epicenter of the event was 66 km (41 miles) from Castro (c. 29 900 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Puerto Quellón (c. 21 800 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Chonchi (c. 12 600 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.
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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 52 km SW of Chonchi, Chile.
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