A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Calama in Chile. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 108.09 km (67 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -68.7924° West, latitude -22.2099° South, depth = 108.09 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/12/18 / 2018-12-31 17:26:01 / December 31, 2018 @ 5:26 pm. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:26:01 / 1:26 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000izh4. Unique identifier: us2000izh4.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Calama. Epicenter of the earthquake was 31 km (19 miles) from Calama (c. 143 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 31 km NNE of Calama, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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