A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 95 kilometers (59 miles) from Illapel in Chile. All ids that are associated to the event: us20003n7l. Unique identifier: us20003n7l. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/09/15 / 2015-09-23 04:21:26 / September 23, 2015 @ 4:21 am. Exact location, longitude -72.1021° West, latitude -31.3213° South, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 23:21:26 / 11:21 pm (local time epicenter). 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 10 km (6 miles).
Epicenter of the earthquake was 95 km (59 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Illapel. Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twelve, in the last 10 days one hundred and sixty-six, in the past 30 days one hundred and sixty-six and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 95 km WNW of Illapel, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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