A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Ovalle in Chile. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 33.52 km (21 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us20003pir. Ids that are associated to the event: us20003pir. Exact location of event, depth 33.52 km, -71.4309° West, -30.777° South. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/09/15 / 2015-09-27 16:25:58 / September 27, 2015 @ 4:25 pm. The temblor was detected at 13:25:58 / 1:25 pm (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Coquimbo, Monte Patria, Ovalle. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 30 km (18 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop).
Every 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 seven, in the last 10 days one hundred and seven, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourty-four and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 29 km SW of Ovalle, Chile.
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