A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Calama in Chile. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 142.17 km, -68.6717° West, -22.0145° South. All ids that are associated to the event: us10006d7r. Unique identifier: us10006d7r. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/08/16 / 2016-08-12 06:14:49 / August 12, 2016 @ 6:14 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 142.17 km (88 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 02:14:49 / 2:14 am (local time epicenter).
Event epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Calama (c. 143 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Calama. Nearby 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 56 km NNE of Calama, Chile.
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