A light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Putre in Chile. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000bt6d. Id of event: us1000bt6d. Exact location of earthquake, -69.7431° West, -18.5449° South, depth 142.48 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/12/17 / 2017-12-19 17:10:57 / December 19, 2017 @ 5:10 pm. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:10:57 / 1:10 pm (local time epicenter). 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 142.48 km (89 miles).
Epicenter of the earthquake was 80 km (50 miles) from Tacna (c. 280 100 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Arica (c. 186 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop), Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tacna, Arica.
Each 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 two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 42 km SSW of Putre, Chile.
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