A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 72 kilometers (45 miles) from Coquimbo in Chile. All ids that are associated to the event: us10005fq5. Unique identifier: us10005fq5. Exact location, longitude -71.9945° West, latitude -30.2834° South, depth = 23.37 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/05/16 / 2016-05-07 12:39:49 / May 7, 2016 @ 12:39 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 07:39:49 / 7:39 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 23.37 km (15 miles).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ovalle, La Serena, Coquimbo. Earthquake epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days four hundred and fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 72 km WSW of Coquimbo, Chile.
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