A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Illapel in Chile on Thursday. Event id: us20003l1z. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003l1z. Exact location of event, longitude -71.8011 West, latitude -31.4012 South, depth = 22.57 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 22.57 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 18/09/15 / 2015-09-18 01:11:37 / September 18, 2015 @ 1:11 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 22:11:37 / 10:11 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Epicenter of the event was 65 km (41 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Salamanca, Illapel. Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).
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. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-eight, in the last 10 days sixty-one, in the past 30 days sixty-one and in the last 365 days seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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: 65 km WNW of Illapel, Chile.
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