A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 87 kilometers (54 miles) from Calama in Chile. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/04/18 / 2018-04-26 23:57:15 / April 26, 2018 @ 11:57 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -68.5114 West, latitude -21.7778 South, depth = 124.62 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000dt4d. Id of event: us1000dt4d. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 124.62 km (77 miles). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:57:15 / 7:57 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
The epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Calama (c. 143 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Calama. Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).
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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days eighty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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: 87 km NNE of Calama, Chile.
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