A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 84 kilometers (52 miles) from Antofagasta in Chile on Thursday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 26.86 km (17 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us20007zdt. Unique identifier: us20007zdt. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/12/16 / 2016-12-09 04:40:41 / December 9, 2016 @ 4:40 am. The temblor was picked up at 23:40:41 / 11:40 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -71.087 West, latitude -23.2214 South, depth = 26.86 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Earthquake epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Antofagasta (c. 309 800 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Antofagasta (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).
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 two and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 84 km NW of Antofagasta, Chile.
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