A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 84 kilometers (52 miles) from Ovalle in Chile. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us20003khi. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003khi. Global time and date of event 17/09/15 / 2015-09-17 05:16:31 / September 17, 2015 @ 5:16 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -72.0757 West, latitude -30.6494 South, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was detected at 00:16:31 / 12:16 am (local time epicenter).
Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ovalle (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty, in the last 10 days twenty-one, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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