A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Illapel in Chile. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/09/16 / 2016-09-07 00:06:00 / September 7, 2016 @ 12:06 am. Event id: us10006mjz. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006mjz. The temblor was detected at 20:06:00 / 8:06 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -71.556 West, latitude -31.99 South, depth = 75.6 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 75.6 km (47 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Salamanca, La Ligua, Illapel. Earthquake epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from La Ligua (c. 24 900 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop). Close 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 one, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days three hundred and thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 54 km SW of Illapel, Chile.
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