A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 94 kilometers (58 miles) from Illapel in Chile on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us100049py. Ids that are associated to the event: us100049py. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11.6 km (7 miles). The temblor was detected at 12:58:08 / 12:58 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -72.1556 West, latitude -31.7491 South, depth = 11.6 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/12/15 / 2015-12-26 17:58:08 / December 26, 2015 @ 5:58 pm.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Illapel (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 94 km (59 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop). Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days three hundred and nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 94 km W of Illapel, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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