A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Putre in Chile. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -69.4098 West, latitude -17.9911 South, depth = 142.44 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 142.44 km (89 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:53:43 / 2:53 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 20/12/17 / 2017-12-20 18:53:43 / December 20, 2017 @ 6:53 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us1000btv2. Event ids that are associated: us1000btv2.
Close country/countries, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tacna (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Tacna (c. 280 100 pop).
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 six, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.
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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: 27 km NE of Putre, Chile.
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