A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Coquimbo in Chile. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000jibh. Unique identifier: us2000jibh. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:00:06 / 3:00 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -71.3958 West, latitude -30.0295 South, depth = 35.48 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35.48 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 15/02/19 / 2019-02-15 07:00:06 / February 15, 2019 @ 7:00 am UTC/GMT.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Monte Patria, Ovalle, Vicuña (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 10 km (6 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Vicuña (c. 13 500 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 9 km SSW of Coquimbo, Chile.
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