A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Calama in Chile on Saturday. Id of earthquake: us20002wse. Event ids that are associated: us20002wse. The temblor was picked up at 09:18:32 / 9:18 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.647 West, latitude -21.787 South, depth = 112.9 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 112.9 km (70 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/07/15 / 2015-07-11 13:18:32 / July 11, 2015 @ 1:18 pm.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Calama. Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Calama (c. 143 100 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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