A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Illapel in Chile. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:21:00 / 6:21 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/09/15 / 2015-09-17 21:21:00 / September 17, 2015 @ 9:21 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 32.43 km (20 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003kxl. Id of event: us20003kxl. Exact location of earthquake, -71.8044° West, -31.4548° South, depth 32.43 km.
Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 63 km (39 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Salamanca, Illapel.
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-seven, in the last 10 days fifty-seven, in the past 30 days fifty-seven and in the last 365 days seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.
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