A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Ovalle in Chile. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 16:38:22 / 4:38 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 50.13 km (31 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us10003x44. Unique identifier: us10003x44. Exact location of event, longitude -71.4785 West, latitude -30.817 South, depth = 50.13 km. Global time and date of event 10/11/15 / 2015-11-10 19:38:22 / November 10, 2015 @ 7:38 pm UTC/GMT.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Monte Patria, Ovalle (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 36 km (22 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop). Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eighteen, in the past 30 days fifty-one and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.
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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 36 km SW of Ovalle, Chile.
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