A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Valparaiso in Chile on Monday. The temblor was picked up at 16:17:07 / 4:17 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -72.1548° West, latitude -33.0741° South, depth = 12.73 km. Global time and date of event 21/09/15 / 2015-09-21 21:17:07 / September 21, 2015 @ 9:17 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.73 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us20003mla. Event ids that are associated: us20003mla.
Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Viña del Mar (c. 294 600 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Valparaíso (c. 282 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Quilpué (c. 130 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Villa Alemana (c. 97 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from San Antonio (c. 85 700 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Quillota (c. 67 800 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Quillota, Limache, San Antonio (min 5000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days twenty-one, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.
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