A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, Coquimbo, Chile kilometers (0 miles) from Coquimbo, Chile. Exact location, longitude -71.6631° West, latitude -30.669° South, depth = 28.18 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us20003knw. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003knw. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/09/15 / 2015-09-17 17:32:21 / September 17, 2015 @ 5:32 pm. The temblor was picked up at 17:32:21 / 5:32 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 28.18 km (18 miles).
Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Serena, Coquimbo, Monte Patria (min 5000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 thirty-nine, in the last 10 days fourty, in the past 30 days fourty-four and in the last 365 days sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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