A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Illapel in Chile. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/03/16 / 2016-03-23 00:38:00 / March 23, 2016 @ 12:38 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us20005bxq. Unique identifier: us20005bxq. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 21:38:00 / 9:38 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -71.4228 West, latitude -31.7701 South, depth = 45.54 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 45.54 km (28 miles).
Epicenter of the earthquake was 78 km (48 miles) from La Ligua (c. 24 900 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Ligua, Salamanca, Illapel (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days three hundred and sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 28 km WSW of Illapel, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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