A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Calama in Chile. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/12/17 / 2017-12-30 21:46:47 / December 30, 2017 @ 9:46 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000bybf. Id of event: us1000bybf. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 83.42 km (52 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:46:47 / 5:46 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -69.1811° West, latitude -22.7991° South, depth = 83.42 km.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Calama (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 46 km (29 miles) from Calama (c. 143 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 44 km SW of Calama, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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