A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Coquimbo in Chile on Friday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/07/16 / 2016-07-29 14:45:09 / July 29, 2016 @ 2:45 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -72.137 West, latitude -30.398 South, depth = 27.3 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:45:09 / 9:45 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 27.3 km (17 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us100068du. Event ids that are associated: us100068du.
Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 91 km (57 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ovalle, Coquimbo (min 5000 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 two, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days four hundred and ninety-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 90 km WSW of Coquimbo, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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