A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Ovalle in Chile. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35.84 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/11/15 / 2015-11-07 09:16:59 / November 7, 2015 @ 9:16 am. Exact location of event, depth 35.84 km, -71.4399° West, -30.8215° South. The temblor was picked up at 06:16:59 / 6:16 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us10003vi2. Unique identifier: us10003vi2.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Coquimbo, Illapel, Monte Patria (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Event epicenter was 97 km (60 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 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 eleven, in the past 30 days fifty-three and in the last 365 days three hundred and twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 33 km SW of Ovalle, Chile.
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