A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Coquimbo in Chile on Monday. Exact location of event, depth 40.02 km, -71.4459° West, -30.2636° South. Unique identifier: us10003ze5. Ids that are associated to the event: us10003ze5. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:01:52 / 12:01 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 09/11/15 / 2015-11-09 03:01:52 / November 9, 2015 @ 3:01 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 40.02 km (25 miles).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vicuña, Monte Patria, Ovalle. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 36 km (22 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Vicuña (c. 13 500 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been nineteen, in the last 10 days thirty-four, in the past 30 days sixty-eight and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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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. 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: 35 km SSW of Coquimbo, Chile.
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