A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Ovalle in Chile. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:43:04 / 9:43 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/01/17 / 2017-01-13 13:43:04 / January 13, 2017 @ 1:43 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007t3f. Id of event: us10007t3f. 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 51.53 km (32 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -71.2791 West, latitude -30.7312 South, depth = 51.53 km.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vicuña, La Serena, Coquimbo (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Vicuña (c. 13 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 16 km SSW of Ovalle, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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