A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 82 kilometers (51 miles) from Ovalle in Chile. Exact location, longitude -72.0587° West, latitude -30.6221° South, depth = 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:20:55 / 12:20 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us20004y5b. Ids that are associated to the event: us20004y5b. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/02/16 / 2016-02-03 17:20:55 / February 3, 2016 @ 5:20 pm.
Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 82 km (51 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ovalle (min 5000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-three, in the last 10 days twenty-eight, in the past 30 days thirty-nine and in the last 365 days four hundred and fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 82 km W of Ovalle, Chile.
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