A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 96 kilometers (60 miles) from Iquique in Chile on Thursday. Global time and date of event 24/09/15 / 2015-09-24 07:14:42 / September 24, 2015 @ 7:14 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us20003nkv. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003nkv. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 04:14:42 / 4:14 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -69.2235 West, latitude -20.2466 South, depth = 109.84 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 109.84 km (68 miles).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Iquique (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 96 km (59 miles) from Iquique (c. 227 500 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 96 km E of Iquique, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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