A light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Coquimbo in Chile. The temblor was reported at 01:53:49 / 1:53 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 12/11/15 / 2015-11-12 06:53:49 / November 12, 2015 @ 6:53 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -72.1582 West, latitude -29.5579 South, depth = 10 km. Event id: us10003xqq. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003xqq.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Serena, Coquimbo. Event epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).
In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days twenty-one, in the past 30 days twenty-eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.
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