A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 81 kilometers (50 miles) from Illapel in Chile. Unique identifier: us20003k9n. Ids that are associated to the event: us20003k9n. Exact location of event, longitude -72.0094 West, latitude -31.7837 South, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 17/09/15 / 2015-09-17 00:22:20 / September 17, 2015 @ 12:22 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 19:22:20 / 7:22 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Ligua, Salamanca, Illapel (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Event epicenter was 104 km (65 miles) from La Ligua (c. 24 900 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days twenty-four 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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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 81 km WSW of Illapel, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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