A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Illapel in Chile. Unique identifier: us20003l3t. Ids that are associated to the event: us20003l3t. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/09/15 / 2015-09-18 05:33:38 / September 18, 2015 @ 5:33 am. Exact location, longitude -71.5224° West, latitude -31.1465° South, depth = 43.02 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 02:33:38 / 2:33 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 43.02 km (27 miles).
Epicenter of the event was 68 km (42 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Salamanca, Monte Patria, Ovalle (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty, in the last 10 days eighty, in the past 30 days eighty and in the last 365 days ninety-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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