A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Putre in Chile. The temblor was reported at 15:34:03 / 3:34 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006b5q. Id of event: us10006b5q. Exact location of earthquake, -69.4984° West, -18.3328° South, depth 144.2 km. Global time and date of event 05/08/16 / 2016-08-05 19:34:03 / August 5, 2016 @ 7:34 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 144.2 km (90 miles).
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tacna, Arica (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Tacna (c. 280 100 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Arica (c. 186 000 pop). Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop), Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 16 km SSE of Putre, Chile.
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