A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 72 kilometers (45 miles) from Iquique in Chile. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -70.836 West, latitude -20.2571 South, depth = 15.19 km. Unique identifier: us1000ehi8. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000ehi8. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:58:15 / 2:58 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15.19 km (9 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/06/18 / 2018-06-02 19:58:15 / June 2, 2018 @ 7:58 pm.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Iquique (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Iquique (c. 227 500 pop). Close 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 72 km W of Iquique, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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