A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Ovalle in Chile. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:08:26 / 1:08 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/09/15 / 2015-09-17 04:08:26 / September 17, 2015 @ 4:08 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003kgd. Id of event: us20003kgd. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 27.36 km (17 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -71.6736 West, latitude -30.81 South, depth = 27.36 km.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Illapel, Coquimbo, Monte Patria (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). The epicenter was 101 km (62 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-two, in the last 10 days thirty-three, in the past 30 days thirty-three and in the last 365 days fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 51 km WSW of Ovalle, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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