A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Ovalle in Chile. Exact time and date of earthquake 12/07/19 / 2019-07-12 09:25:03 / July 12, 2019 @ 9:25 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 50.64 km (31 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -71.4896° West, -30.7569° South, depth 50.64 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us70004iw6. Event ids that are associated: us70004iw6. The temblor was detected at 05:25:03 / 5:25 am (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Serena, Coquimbo, Monte Patria (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). The epicenter was 91 km (56 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days seventy-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.
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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: 32 km WSW of Ovalle, Chile.
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