A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Illapel in Chile. Exact location, longitude -71.5629° West, latitude -31.5383° South, depth = 32.89 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 20:47:27 / 8:47 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us200066pl. Unique identifier: us200066pl. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/06/16 / 2016-06-25 00:47:27 / June 25, 2016 @ 12:47 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 32.89 km (20 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Salamanca, Illapel (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). The epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days five hundred and four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 39 km WNW of Illapel, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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