A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Valparaiso in Chile. Exact location of event, longitude -71.8346 West, latitude -32.6309 South, depth = 19.56 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/07/16 / 2016-07-26 23:00:22 / July 26, 2016 @ 11:00 pm. Event id: us20006hyj. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20006hyj. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 19.56 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 18:00:22 / 6:00 pm (local time epicenter).
Epicenter of the earthquake was 51 km (32 miles) from Viña del Mar (c. 294 600 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Valparaíso (c. 282 400 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Quilpué (c. 130 300 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Villa Alemana (c. 97 300 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Quillota (c. 67 800 pop), 105 km (65 miles) from San Felipe (c. 59 300 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Hacienda La Calera (c. 49 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cartagena, San Felipe, Llaillay (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).
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 one hundred and eighty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.
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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: 49 km NNW of Valparaiso, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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