A light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Coquimbo in Chile. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 48.8 km (30 miles). The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:15:14 / 8:15 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 06/10/17 / 2017-10-06 00:15:14 / October 6, 2017 @ 12:15 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -71.348 West, latitude -29.925 South, depth = 48.8 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000b1s9. Unique identifier: us2000b1s9.
The epicenter was 3 km (2 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Vicuña (c. 13 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ovalle, Vicuña, La Serena (min 5000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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. 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: 3 km N of Coquimbo, Chile.
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