A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Coquimbo in Chile. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us1000esd2. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000esd2. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/06/18 / 2018-06-15 14:01:44 / June 15, 2018 @ 2:01 pm. The temblor was picked up at 09:01:44 / 9:01 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -71.6949° West, -29.5482° South.
Event epicenter was 57 km (35 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Serena, Coquimbo (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 two and in the last 365 days fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 56 km NW of Coquimbo, Chile.
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