A earthquake magnitude 6.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Illapel in Chile. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 01:10:31 / 1:10 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us20003kfv. Unique identifier: us20003kfv. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 40.09 km (25 miles). Exact location of event, depth 40.09 km, -71.7711° West, -31.5296° South. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/09/15 / 2015-09-17 04:10:31 / September 17, 2015 @ 4:10 am.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Monte Patria, Ovalle, La Ligua (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 117 km (73 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 115 km (71 miles) from La Ligua (c. 24 900 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 121 km (75 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. In the past 24 hours, there have been nineteen, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world.
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