A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 78 kilometers (48 miles) from Tarauaca in Brazil. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -71.3752° West, latitude -8.5373° South, depth = 641.86 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/11/15 / 2015-11-25 09:26:23 / November 25, 2015 @ 9:26 am. The temblor was detected at 04:26:23 / 4:26 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us1000416q. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000416q. The epicenter was at a depth of 641.86 km (399 miles).
Nearby country/countries, Brazil (c. 201 103 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tarauacá (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Tarauacá (c. 16 500 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 78 km WSW of Tarauaca, Brazil. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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