A light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Illapel in Chile. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/09/15 / 2015-09-17 01:09:49 / September 17, 2015 @ 1:09 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -72.11 West, latitude -31.7726 South, depth = 35 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). The temblor was reported at 20:09:49 / 8:09 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003kbq. Id of event: us20003kbq.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Illapel. Epicenter of the earthquake was 90 km (56 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop). 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 90 km W of Illapel, Chile.
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