A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Illapel in Chile on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 23/09/15 / 2015-09-23 00:23:46 / September 23, 2015 @ 12:23 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -71.274 West, latitude -31.634 South, depth = 44.5 km. Unique identifier: us20003n5l. Ids that are associated to the event: us20003n5l. The temblor was detected at 21:23:46 / 9:23 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 44.5 km (28 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Event epicenter was 91 km (57 miles) from La Ligua (c. 24 900 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Ligua, Salamanca, Illapel. Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-four, in the last 10 days one hundred and fourty-seven, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourty-seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 10 km W of Illapel, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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