A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 89 kilometers (55 miles) from Coquimbo in Chile. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.6 km (5 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/03/16 / 2016-03-29 22:02:39 / March 29, 2016 @ 10:02 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us20005d8v. Unique identifier: us20005d8v. The temblor was reported at 17:02:39 / 5:02 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -72.1141 West, latitude -30.3966 South, depth = 7.6 km.
Event epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ovalle, Coquimbo. Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Each 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 seven, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days four hundred and thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 89 km SW of Coquimbo, Chile.
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