A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Ovalle in Chile. All ids that are associated to the event: us20005cbu. Unique identifier: us20005cbu. Exact location, longitude -71.6946° West, latitude -30.3936° South, depth = 28.06 km. The temblor was picked up at 19:14:37 / 7:14 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 28.06 km (17 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 24/03/16 / 2016-03-24 22:14:37 / March 24, 2016 @ 10:14 pm UTC/GMT.
Epicenter of the event was 60 km (37 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Monte Patria, La Serena, Coquimbo (min 5000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days four hundred and fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. 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: 52 km WNW of Ovalle, Chile.
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