A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Calama in Chile. Exact location, longitude -69.1721° West, latitude -22.7596° South, depth = 89.01 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 20/10/17 / 2017-10-20 19:27:37 / October 20, 2017 @ 7:27 pm UTC/GMT. 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 89.01 km (55 miles). Event id: us1000auus. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000auus. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:27:37 / 3:27 pm (local time epicenter).
Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Calama (c. 143 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Calama (min 5000 pop).
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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-eight 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 40 km SW of Calama, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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