A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Vallenar in Chile. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/05/18 / 2018-05-03 17:15:45 / May 3, 2018 @ 5:15 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us1000dxc6. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000dxc6. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 84.97 km (53 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 13:15:45 / 1:15 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -70.7906° West, latitude -28.3673° South, depth = 84.97 km.
Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Event epicenter was 23 km (15 miles) from Vallenar (c. 44 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vallenar.
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 22 km N of Vallenar, Chile.
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