A earthquake with magnitude 6.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Illapel in Chile. Id of earthquake: us20003k7w. Event ids that are associated: us20003k7w. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -71.4247 West, latitude -31.5871 South, depth = 31.09 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 31.09 km (19 miles). The temblor was picked up at 20:18:42 / 8:18 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/09/15 / 2015-09-16 23:18:42 / September 16, 2015 @ 11:18 pm.
Epicenter of the earthquake was 112 km (69 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from La Ligua (c. 24 900 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 109 km (68 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ovalle, Monte Patria, La Ligua. Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).
Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 135 quakes in the world.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 25 km W of Illapel, Chile.
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