A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Calama in Chile. Exact location of event, longitude -68.7306 West, latitude -22.2315 South, depth = 122.62 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 122.62 km (76 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 23/11/18 / 2018-11-23 05:31:04 / November 23, 2018 @ 5:31 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:31:04 / 1:31 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us1000hvlj. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hvlj.
Epicenter of the event was 32 km (20 miles) from Calama (c. 143 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Calama.
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 two, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days seventy-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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: 33 km NE of Calama, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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