A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Putre in Chile on Tuesday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -69.737 West, latitude -18.5919 South, depth = 91.03 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/10/17 / 2017-10-10 07:04:46 / October 10, 2017 @ 7:04 am. The temblor was reported at 03:04:46 / 3:04 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000b3e9. Id of event: us2000b3e9. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 91.03 km (57 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tacna, Arica (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 84 km (52 miles) from Tacna (c. 280 100 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Arica (c. 186 000 pop). Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop), Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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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: 47 km SSW of Putre, Chile.
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