A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 91 kilometers (57 miles) from Coquimbo in Chile. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 34.04 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/01/17 / 2017-01-03 20:16:38 / January 3, 2017 @ 8:16 pm. Exact location, longitude -72.2066° West, latitude -30.2936° South, depth = 34.04 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007pik. Id of event: us10007pik. The temblor was detected at 15:16:38 / 3:16 pm (local time epicenter).
Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). The epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Coquimbo (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 91 km WSW of Coquimbo, Chile.
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