A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Valparaiso in Chile. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us10008w52. Unique identifier: us10008w52. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:24:34 / 5:24 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -72.1095° West, latitude -32.9389° South, depth = 19.48 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 29/05/17 / 2017-05-29 22:24:34 / May 29, 2017 @ 10:24 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 19.48 km (12 miles).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Antonio, Hacienda La Calera, Cartagena (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Viña del Mar (c. 294 600 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Valparaíso (c. 282 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Quilpué (c. 130 300 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Villa Alemana (c. 97 300 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from San Antonio (c. 85 700 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Quillota (c. 67 800 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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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. 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: 46 km WNW of Valparaiso, Chile.
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