A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Coquimbo in Chile. All ids that are associated to the event: us10003y54. Unique identifier: us10003y54. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 11.5 km (7 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 11/11/15 / 2015-11-11 02:26:30 / November 11, 2015 @ 2:26 am UTC/GMT. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:26:30 / 9:26 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -72.1431° West, latitude -29.5254° South, depth = 11.5 km.
The epicenter was 91 km (57 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Serena, Coquimbo (min 5000 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-seven, in the last 10 days thirty-five, in the past 30 days fourty-three and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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