A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 83 kilometers (52 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 29/09/15 / 2015-09-29 16:46:15 / September 29, 2015 @ 4:46 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 11:46:15 / 11:46 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us10003iwh. Unique identifier: us10003iwh. Exact location of event, longitude -72.0341 West, latitude -31.5387 South, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Illapel (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 83 km (51 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days one hundred and five, in the past 30 days two hundred and twelve and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-six 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: 83 km W of Illapel, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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