A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Yacimiento Rio Turbio in Argentina. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us2000k94n. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000k94n. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/04/19 / 2019-04-02 13:17:39 / April 2, 2019 @ 1:17 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -72.0964° West, latitude -51.2377° South, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 10:17:39 / 10:17 am (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was El Calafate, Puerto Natales, Yacimiento Río Turbio (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 60 km (38 miles) from Puerto Natales (c. 20 000 pop), 101 km (62 miles) from El Calafate (c. 8 000 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Río Turbio (c. 6 700 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Yacimiento Río Turbio (c. 6 700 pop). Nearby country/countries, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop), Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).
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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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