A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Illapel in Chile. Exact time and date of earthquake 01/08/18 / 2018-08-01 06:19:05 / August 1, 2018 @ 6:19 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us2000gis1. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000gis1. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -72.0716 West, latitude -31.3664 South, depth = 10 km. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:19:05 / 1:19 am (local time epicenter).
Epicenter of the event was 91 km (56 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Illapel. Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 90 km WNW of Illapel, Chile.
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