A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 92 kilometers (57 miles) from Illapel in Chile. The 5.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:24:02 / 11:24 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -72.0843° West, -31.3549° South. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/09/15 / 2015-09-18 04:24:02 / September 18, 2015 @ 4:24 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us20003l3e. Unique identifier: us20003l3e. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Epicenter of the earthquake was 92 km (57 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Illapel (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-five, in the last 10 days sixty-nine, in the past 30 days sixty-nine and in the last 365 days eighty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 92 km WNW of Illapel, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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