A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 88 kilometers (55 miles) from Arica in Chile. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000jm5c. Unique identifier: us1000jm5c. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 44.01 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -70.2778 West, latitude -19.2732 South, depth = 44.01 km. The temblor was detected at 20:34:52 / 8:34 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 earthquake 27/03/19 / 2019-03-27 00:34:52 / March 27, 2019 @ 12:34 am UTC/GMT.
Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 89 km (55 miles) from Arica (c. 186 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arica (min 5000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-five 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 quakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 88 km S of Arica, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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