A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Illapel in Chile. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 30.26 km (19 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/09/15 / 2015-09-19 18:13:17 / September 19, 2015 @ 6:13 pm. The temblor was reported at 13:13:17 / 1:13 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -71.9019° West, latitude -31.2792° South, depth = 30.26 km. Unique identifier: us20003lxn. Ids that are associated to the event: us20003lxn.
Epicenter of the event was 80 km (50 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Illapel.
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been nineteen, in the last 10 days one hundred, in the past 30 days one hundred and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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