A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) strikes 86 kilometers (53 miles) from Illapel in Chile on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us20003kc5. Event ids that are associated: us20003kc5. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 15.22 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 20:33:03 / 8:33 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/09/15 / 2015-09-17 01:33:03 / September 17, 2015 @ 1:33 am. Exact location, longitude -72.0708° West, latitude -31.7243° South, depth = 15.22 km.
Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Ligua, Salamanca, Illapel (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 113 km (70 miles) from La Ligua (c. 24 900 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 105 km (65 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop).
There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirteen, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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