A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Taltal in Chile. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/09/15 / 2015-09-14 06:04:54 / September 14, 2015 @ 6:04 am. The temblor was detected at 01:04:54 / 1:04 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -70.7708 West, latitude -25.1904 South, depth = 38.41 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 38.41 km (24 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003j99. Id of event: us20003j99. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Epicenter of the event was 38 km (23 miles) from Taltal (c. 10 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Taltal. Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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: 37 km NW of Taltal, Chile.
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