A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Putre in Chile. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 12/05/19 / 2019-05-12 21:52:11 / May 12, 2019 @ 9:52 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 17:52:11 / 5:52 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 157.52 km (98 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -69.4644 West, latitude -17.7026 South, depth = 157.52 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us70003k4p. Unique identifier: us70003k4p.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tacna (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Tacna (c. 280 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 55 km N of Putre, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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