A light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 100 kilometers (62 miles) from Illapel in Chile on Friday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/09/15 / 2015-09-18 07:49:15 / September 18, 2015 @ 7:49 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 13.06 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -72.1926 West, latitude -31.8467 South, depth = 13.06 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003l4s. Id of event: us20003l4s. The temblor was picked up at 02:49:15 / 2:49 am (local time epicenter).
The epicenter was 100 km (62 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Illapel. Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-nine, in the last 10 days fifty-nine, in the past 30 days fifty-nine and in the last 365 days seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 100 km WSW of Illapel, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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