A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Los Andes in Chile. The epicenter was at a depth of 106.67 km (66 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000bwck. Unique identifier: us1000bwck. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/12/17 / 2017-12-26 13:05:26 / December 26, 2017 @ 1:05 pm. The temblor was detected at 09:05:26 / 9:05 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -70.1858 West, latitude -32.8205 South, depth = 106.67 km.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Pintana, Lo Prado, Santiago (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 83 km (51 miles) from Santiago (c. 4 837 300 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from La Pintana (c. 201 200 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Lo Prado (c. 104 300 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from San Felipe (c. 59 300 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Los Andes (c. 56 900 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Lampa (c. 29 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.
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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 38 km E of Los Andes, Chile.
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