A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Illapel in Chile. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 34.23 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 21/09/15 / 2015-09-21 18:47:07 / September 21, 2015 @ 6:47 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us20003miu. Ids that are associated to the event: us20003miu. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:47:07 / 3:47 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -71.6678 West, latitude -31.7629 South, depth = 34.23 km.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Ligua, Salamanca, Illapel. Event epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from La Ligua (c. 24 900 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop). Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).
In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, 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-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
Did you feel anything?
What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 49 km WSW of Illapel, Chile.
Copyright © 2015 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.
Leave a Reply