A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 72 kilometers (45 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: 27/05/16 / 2016-05-27 17:48:34 / May 27, 2016 @ 5:48 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005ylb. Id of event: us20005ylb. Exact location of event, depth 26.08 km, -71.6949° West, -31.0918° South. The temblor was detected at 13:48:34 / 1:48 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 26.08 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Monte Patria, Illapel, Ovalle. Epicenter of the earthquake was 72 km (45 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days five hundred and seventy-four 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. 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: 72 km SW of Ovalle, Chile.
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