A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Ovalle 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 30/09/15 / 2015-09-30 02:00:04 / September 30, 2015 @ 2:00 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 27.22 km, -71.717° West, -30.6353° South. The temblor was picked up at 23:00:04 / 11:00 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us10003j1k. Unique identifier: us10003j1k. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 27.22 km (17 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Serena, Coquimbo, Monte Patria (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 84 km (52 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days seventy-one, in the past 30 days one hundred and sixty-nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.
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