A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Copiapo in Chile. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -69.7725 West, latitude -27.5746 South, depth = 88.64 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000d6fx. Id of event: us1000d6fx. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 88.64 km (55 miles). Global time and date of event 19/03/18 / 2018-03-19 16:36:19 / March 19, 2018 @ 4:36 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 12:36:19 / 12:36 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Copiapó. Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Copiapó (c. 129 300 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourteen 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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