A light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 94 kilometers (58 miles) from Coquimbo in Chile. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9.99 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/12/15 / 2015-12-07 17:41:15 / December 7, 2015 @ 5:41 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -72.2232 West, latitude -30.3253 South, depth = 9.99 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100044sc. Id of event: us100044sc. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:41:15 / 12:41 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ovalle, Coquimbo (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 95 km (59 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days fifty-three and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 94 km WSW of Coquimbo, Chile.
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