A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Illapel in Chile. Exact location of event, longitude -71.694 West, latitude -31.753 South, depth = 40.7 km. The temblor was reported at 20:42:08 / 8:42 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us1000410u. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000410u. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 40.7 km (25 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/11/15 / 2015-11-24 23:42:08 / November 24, 2015 @ 11:42 pm.
Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 89 km (55 miles) from La Ligua (c. 24 900 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Ligua, Salamanca, Illapel (min 5000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days three hundred and thirty-six 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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