A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 96 kilometers (60 miles) from Illapel in Chile. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 30 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/08/16 / 2016-08-09 17:56:15 / August 9, 2016 @ 5:56 pm. The temblor was detected at 12:56:15 / 12:56 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -72.18 West, latitude -31.74 South, depth = 30 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006cds. Id of event: us10006cds.
Event epicenter was 96 km (60 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Illapel (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days three hundred and eighty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 96 km W of Illapel, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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