A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 97 kilometers (60 miles) from Iquique in Chile. Global time and date of event 16/09/15 / 2015-09-16 18:24:20 / September 16, 2015 @ 6:24 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us20003k2k. Ids that are associated to the event: us20003k2k. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.1 km (5 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -71.0341 West, latitude -19.9671 South, depth = 8.1 km. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:24:20 / 1:24 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Iquique (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 98 km (61 miles) from Iquique (c. 227 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 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 four, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 97 km WNW of Iquique, Chile.
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