A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Copiapo in Chile on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us10002niw. Ids that are associated to the event: us10002niw. The temblor was picked up at 10:26:50 / 10:26 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/07/15 / 2015-07-05 14:26:50 / July 5, 2015 @ 2:26 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 110.74 km (69 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -69.8638 West, latitude -27.1791 South, depth = 110.74 km.
The epicenter was 51 km (32 miles) from Copiapó (c. 129 300 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Diego de Almagro (c. 18 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Diego de Almagro, Copiapó. Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).
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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 50 km ENE of Copiapo, Chile.
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