A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 53 km SSE of Putre, Chile (33 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000j0gr. Unique identifier: us2000j0gr. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -69.3595 West, latitude -18.6435 South, depth = 131.04 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/01/19 / 2019-01-05 08:30:09 / January 5, 2019 @ 8:30 am. The temblor was detected at 04:30:09 / 4:30 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 131.04 km (81 miles) below the earth’s surface.
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 one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 53 km SSE of Putre, Chile.
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