A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, offshore Coquimbo, Chile kilometers (0 miles) from offshore Coquimbo, Chile. Exact time and date of earthquake 17/09/15 / 2015-09-17 16:46:21 / September 17, 2015 @ 4:46 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003km8. Id of event: us20003km8. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -71.8593 West, latitude -31.4696 South, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 16:46:21 / 4:46 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Salamanca, Illapel (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 68 km (42 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-six, in the last 10 days fourty-six, in the past 30 days fourty-six and in the last 365 days sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: offshore Coquimbo, Chile.
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