A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Iquique in Chile. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007pgc. Id of event: us10007pgc. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 33.75 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 03/01/17 / 2017-01-03 13:41:51 / January 3, 2017 @ 1:41 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 08:41:51 / 8:41 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -70.4427° West, -19.9423° South, depth 33.75 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Iquique (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 44 km (28 miles) from Iquique (c. 227 500 pop).
Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.
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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. 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: 43 km NW of Iquique, Chile.
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