A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Putre in Chile. Exact location, longitude -69.457° West, latitude -18.358° South, depth = 123.2 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:56:50 / 9:56 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us2000cmg8. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000cmg8. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/01/18 / 2018-01-22 13:56:50 / January 22, 2018 @ 1:56 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 123.2 km (77 miles).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tacna, Arica (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop), Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Event epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Tacna (c. 280 100 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Arica (c. 186 000 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 20 km SSE of Putre, Chile.
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