A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Ovalle in Chile. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/03/16 / 2016-03-25 08:03:20 / March 25, 2016 @ 8:03 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005cdz. Id of event: us20005cdz. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 41.28 km (26 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -71.5496 West, latitude -30.6753 South, depth = 41.28 km. The temblor was reported at 05:03:20 / 5:03 am (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Serena, Coquimbo, Monte Patria (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 83 km (51 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop), 35 km (21 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days four hundred and fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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: 34 km WSW of Ovalle, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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