A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Iquique in Chile. Unique identifier: us2000j1jg. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000j1jg. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/01/19 / 2019-01-08 22:32:54 / January 8, 2019 @ 10:32 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 34.5 km (21 miles). Exact location, longitude -69.8381° West, latitude -20.6382° South, depth = 34.5 km. The temblor was picked up at 18:32:54 / 6:32 pm (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Iquique (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 56 km (35 miles) from Iquique (c. 227 500 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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