A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 73 kilometers (45 miles) from Illapel in Chile. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/02/19 / 2019-02-03 02:56:42 / February 3, 2019 @ 2:56 am. The temblor was picked up at 21:56:42 / 9:56 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 26.63 km (17 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -71.8755 West, latitude -31.3742 South, depth = 26.63 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000jcll. Id of event: us2000jcll. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Salamanca, Illapel (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 73 km (45 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 97 km (61 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fifty-six 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 73 km WNW of Illapel, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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