A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 88 kilometers (55 miles) from Ovalle in Chile. The epicenter was at a depth of 15.3 km (10 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 21/09/15 / 2015-09-21 01:42:13 / September 21, 2015 @ 1:42 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -72.1151° West, -30.7008° South, depth 15.3 km. The temblor was picked up at 20:42:13 / 8:42 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us20003nty. Unique identifier: us20003nty.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ovalle (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 88 km (55 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-four, in the last 10 days one hundred and fourty-three, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourty-three and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-eight 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 88 km W of Ovalle, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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