A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Illapel in Chile. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -71.7101 West, latitude -31.681 South, depth = 19.07 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us20003mmu. Unique identifier: us20003mmu. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 19.07 km (12 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/09/15 / 2015-09-21 22:25:30 / September 21, 2015 @ 10:25 pm. The temblor was picked up at 19:25:30 / 7:25 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Salamanca, Illapel. The epicenter was 51 km (32 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourteen, in the last 10 days one hundred and twenty-six, in the past 30 days one hundred and twenty-six and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 51 km W of Illapel, Chile.
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