A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Ovalle in Chile. Exact location, longitude -71.6114° West, latitude -30.9638° South, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 11:08:04 / 11:08 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us20003l88. Event ids that are associated: us20003l88. Global time and date of event 18/09/15 / 2015-09-18 14:08:04 / September 18, 2015 @ 2:08 pm UTC/GMT.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Illapel, Monte Patria, Ovalle. Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-one, in the last 10 days seventy-three, in the past 30 days seventy-three and in the last 365 days ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 56 km SW of Ovalle, Chile.
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