A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 93 kilometers (58 miles) from Iquique in Chile on Friday. Exact location, longitude -70.7251° West, latitude -20.8665° South, depth = 18.54 km. The temblor was reported at 13:13:00 / 1:13 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/02/19 / 2019-02-22 18:13:00 / February 22, 2019 @ 6:13 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 18.54 km (12 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000jlnk. Unique identifier: us2000jlnk.
Epicenter of the event was 94 km (59 miles) from Iquique (c. 227 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Iquique (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).
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. 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 twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 93 km SW of Iquique, Chile.
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