A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 88 kilometers (55 miles) from Coquimbo in Chile. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/02/18 / 2018-02-06 11:54:50 / February 6, 2018 @ 11:54 am. Event id: us1000chfp. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000chfp. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 22.75 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -71.9978° West, latitude -29.3956° South, depth = 22.75 km. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:54:50 / 6:54 am (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Serena, Coquimbo (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop). Close 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 five and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. 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: 88 km NW of Coquimbo, Chile.
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