A light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Illapel in Chile. Exact location of earthquake, -71.7154° West, -31.6246° South, depth 35 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/09/15 / 2015-09-24 13:35:54 / September 24, 2015 @ 1:35 pm. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:35:54 / 10:35 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Event id: us20003nmy. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003nmy. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Salamanca, Illapel. Epicenter of the event was 52 km (32 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop). 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days one hundred and fifty-seven, in the past 30 days one hundred and fifty-seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 52 km W of Illapel, Chile.
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