A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 91 kilometers (57 miles) from Vallenar in Chile on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 35.43 km, -71.3795° West, -27.9498° South. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/07/15 / 2015-07-26 04:16:25 / July 26, 2015 @ 4:16 am. The temblor was detected at 23:16:25 / 11:16 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35.43 km (22 miles). Unique identifier: us2000306f. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000306f.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vallenar (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 92 km (57 miles) from Vallenar (c. 44 900 pop).
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. 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 twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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