A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Calama in Chile. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 140.97 km (88 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: 07/07/17 / 2017-07-07 01:54:43 / July 7, 2017 @ 1:54 am. The temblor was detected at 21:54:43 / 9:54 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us100097j8. Unique identifier: us100097j8. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.4927 West, latitude -22.4643 South, depth = 140.97 km.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Calama (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 45 km (28 miles) from Calama (c. 143 100 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days sixty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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. 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: 45 km E of Calama, Chile.
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