A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from La Serena in Chile. Exact location of earthquake, -71.3678° West, -29.6563° South, depth 43.76 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007s2a. Id of event: us10007s2a. The temblor was picked up at 20:40:35 / 8:40 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/01/17 / 2017-01-09 00:40:35 / January 9, 2017 @ 12:40 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 43.76 km (27 miles).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vicuña, Coquimbo, La Serena (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 33 km (21 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Vicuña (c. 13 500 pop). Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days ninety-one 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 29 km NNW of La Serena, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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