A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Ovalle in Chile on Sunday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 32.1 km (20 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 13/12/15 / 2015-12-13 12:08:29 / December 13, 2015 @ 12:08 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us20004gvz. Unique identifier: us20004gvz. Exact location of event, longitude -71.606 West, latitude -30.632 South, depth = 32.1 km. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:08:29 / 9:08 am (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Serena, Coquimbo, Monte Patria (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Event epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twelve, in the last 10 days twenty-two, in the past 30 days fourty-nine and in the last 365 days four hundred and three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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