A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 89 kilometers (55 miles) from Valparaiso in Chile. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003l0p. Id of event: us20003l0p. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/09/15 / 2015-09-17 23:23:14 / September 17, 2015 @ 11:23 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 18:23:14 / 6:23 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -72.2238° West, -32.4049° South, depth 15.39 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 15.39 km (10 miles).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Ligua, Viña del Mar, Valparaíso. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 93 km (58 miles) from Viña del Mar (c. 294 600 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Valparaíso (c. 282 400 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from La Ligua (c. 24 900 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-four, in the last 10 days twenty-eight, in the past 30 days twenty-eight and in the last 365 days fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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