A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Illapel in Chile. All ids that are associated to the event: us20003l3p. Unique identifier: us20003l3p. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 24.23 km (15 miles). Global time and date of event 18/09/15 / 2015-09-18 04:29:05 / September 18, 2015 @ 4:29 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 01:29:05 / 1:29 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -71.726° West, latitude -31.6345° South, depth = 24.23 km.
Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Ligua, Salamanca, Illapel (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 102 km (64 miles) from La Ligua (c. 24 900 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop).
Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-two, in the last 10 days sixty-seven, in the past 30 days sixty-seven and in the last 365 days eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 53 km W of Illapel, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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