A light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Illapel in Chile on Saturday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/08/19 / 2019-08-10 17:16:05 / August 10, 2019 @ 5:16 pm. Exact location of event, depth 53.78 km, -71.4167° West, -31.7578° South. The temblor was picked up at 13:16:05 / 1:16 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us600053g8. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us600053g8. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 53.78 km (33 miles).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Ligua, Salamanca, Illapel. Event epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from La Ligua (c. 24 900 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 seven and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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. 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: 27 km WSW of Illapel, Chile.
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