A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Hacienda La Calera in Chile. Exact location, longitude -71.1321° West, latitude -32.7389° South, depth = 53.43 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 53.43 km (33 miles). The temblor was detected at 12:52:18 / 12:52 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us1000dnuk. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000dnuk. Exact time and date of earthquake 19/04/18 / 2018-04-19 16:52:18 / April 19, 2018 @ 4:52 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santiago, Lo Prado, Chicureo Abajo (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). The epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Santiago (c. 4 837 300 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Viña del Mar (c. 294 600 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Valparaíso (c. 282 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Quilpué (c. 130 300 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Lo Prado (c. 104 300 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Villa Alemana (c. 97 300 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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