A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Iquique in Chile. All ids that are associated to the event: us10005zyk. Unique identifier: us10005zyk. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 11.2 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -70.9115 West, latitude -20.1948 South, depth = 11.2 km. 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: 05/07/16 / 2016-07-05 02:29:03 / July 5, 2016 @ 2:29 am. The temblor was picked up at 21:29:03 / 9:29 pm (local time epicenter).
Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Iquique (c. 227 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Iquique.
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 80 km W of Iquique, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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