A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, offshore Coquimbo, Chile kilometers (0 miles) from offshore Coquimbo, Chile. Exact location of earthquake, -71.9999° West, -30.8507° South, depth 12.76 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us20003kpk. Unique identifier: us20003kpk. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/09/15 / 2015-09-17 18:04:41 / September 17, 2015 @ 6:04 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 12.76 km (8 miles). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:04:41 / 6:04 pm (local time epicenter).
Epicenter of the earthquake was 81 km (51 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ovalle.
In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty, in the last 10 days fifty, in the past 30 days fifty and in the last 365 days sixty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.
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