A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Ovalle in Chile. Exact location of event, depth 42.22 km, -71.4619° West, -30.7104° South. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20007fzi. Id of event: us20007fzi. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 42.22 km (26 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 15:02:32 / 3:02 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/10/16 / 2016-10-21 19:02:32 / October 21, 2016 @ 7:02 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 85 km (53 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Serena, Coquimbo, Monte Patria.
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every 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 two, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 27 km WSW of Ovalle, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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