A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Calama in Chile on Saturday. Exact location, longitude -69.0525° West, latitude -22.7495° South, depth = 110.16 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000ht6v. Id of event: us1000ht6v. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/11/18 / 2018-11-17 14:47:25 / November 17, 2018 @ 2:47 pm. The temblor was reported at 10:47:25 / 10:47 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 110.16 km (68 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Calama (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Calama (c. 143 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).
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 six and in the last 365 days fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 33 km SSW of Calama, Chile.
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