A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Iquique in Chile. Exact location of event, longitude -70.2645 West, latitude -20.2958 South, depth = 34.44 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us20003001. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003001. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/07/15 / 2015-07-24 23:14:38 / July 24, 2015 @ 11:14 pm. The 5.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:14:38 / 7:14 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 34.44 km (21 miles).
Epicenter of the earthquake was 16 km (10 miles) from Iquique (c. 227 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Iquique. Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).
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 fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 15 km WSW of Iquique, Chile.
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