A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Ovalle in Chile. Exact location, longitude -71.5441° West, latitude -30.9136° South, depth = 39.55 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007e6v. Id of event: us10007e6v. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/12/16 / 2016-12-02 03:49:57 / December 2, 2016 @ 3:49 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 39.55 km (25 miles). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:49:57 / 11:49 pm (local time epicenter).
Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Illapel, Monte Patria, Ovalle (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 48 km (30 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 48 km SW of Ovalle, Chile.
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