A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Puerto Quellon in Chile. Exact location of event, depth 16.88 km, -74.2118° West, -43.3561° South. The temblor was picked up at 12:00:02 / 12:00 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us10007mp7. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007mp7. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/12/16 / 2016-12-25 16:00:02 / December 25, 2016 @ 4:00 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16.88 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Chonchi, Puerto Quellón (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Puerto Quellón (c. 21 800 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Chonchi (c. 12 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).
There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourteen, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 55 km WSW of Puerto Quellon, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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