A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 86 kilometers (53 miles) from Calama in Chile on Monday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/01/18 / 2018-01-15 04:58:40 / January 15, 2018 @ 4:58 am. The temblor was picked up at 00:58:40 / 12:58 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -68.6792 West, latitude -21.7267 South, depth = 118.91 km. Event id: us2000cjma. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000cjma. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 118.91 km (74 miles).
Epicenter of the earthquake was 85 km (53 miles) from Calama (c. 143 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Calama (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).
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 one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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