A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 86 kilometers (53 miles) from Tocopilla in Chile. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us10007sna. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007sna. Exact location, longitude -69.8664° West, latitude -22.806° South, depth = 74.32 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 74.32 km (46 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 11/01/17 / 2017-01-11 22:13:55 / January 11, 2017 @ 10:13 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 18:13:55 / 6:13 pm (local time epicenter).
The epicenter was 86 km (54 miles) from Tocopilla (c. 24 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tocopilla.
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 86 km SSE of Tocopilla, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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