A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 76 kilometers (47 miles) from San Felipe in Chile on Sunday. Exact location, longitude -70.2249° West, latitude -32.2164° South, depth = 116.09 km. 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: 27/03/16 / 2016-03-27 04:00:19 / March 27, 2016 @ 4:00 am. Unique identifier: us20005cmy. Ids that are associated to the event: us20005cmy. The temblor was detected at 01:00:19 / 1:00 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 116.09 km (72 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Salamanca, Los Andes, San Felipe (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 76 km (47 miles) from San Felipe (c. 59 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Los Andes (c. 56 900 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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. 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: 76 km NE of San Felipe, Chile.
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