A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Illapel in Chile. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:23:09 / 8:23 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005bbr. Id of event: us20005bbr. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/03/16 / 2016-03-20 23:23:09 / March 20, 2016 @ 11:23 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -71.7955 West, latitude -31.4534 South, depth = 24.13 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 24.13 km (15 miles).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Salamanca, Illapel (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days four hundred and eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 62 km WNW of Illapel, Chile.
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