A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Illapel in Chile. Global time and date of event 17/09/15 / 2015-09-17 06:38:56 / September 17, 2015 @ 6:38 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -71.9087 West, latitude -31.6298 South, depth = 25.02 km. Unique identifier: us20003ki9. Ids that are associated to the event: us20003ki9. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 25.02 km (16 miles). The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:38:56 / 1:38 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Salamanca, Illapel (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-five, in the last 10 days thirty-five, in the past 30 days thirty-five and in the last 365 days fifty 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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