A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 109 kilometers (68 miles) from Iquique in Chile. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/12/17 / 2017-12-11 19:00:55 / December 11, 2017 @ 7:00 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -71.0557 West, latitude -19.7309 South, depth = 8.58 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 14:00:55 / 2:00 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us2000c2xt. Event ids that are associated: us2000c2xt. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.58 km (5 miles).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Iquique. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Event epicenter was 110 km (68 miles) from Iquique (c. 227 500 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.
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