A light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Puerto Quellon in Chile on Tuesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/12/16 / 2016-12-27 14:07:24 / December 27, 2016 @ 2:07 pm. Unique identifier: us10007n0y. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007n0y. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 36.12 km (22 miles). The temblor was reported at 10:07:24 / 10:07 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -74.0573 West, latitude -43.3935 South, depth = 36.12 km.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Chonchi, Puerto Quellón. Event epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Puerto Quellón (c. 21 800 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Chonchi (c. 12 600 pop). Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).
In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.
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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: 47 km SW of Puerto Quellon, Chile.
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