A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Vallenar in Chile. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -71.6377° West, -28.8154° South. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/08/19 / 2019-08-21 10:04:43 / August 21, 2019 @ 10:04 am. Unique identifier: us600057vk. Ids that are associated to the event: us600057vk. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 06:04:43 / 6:04 am (local time epicenter).
Earthquake epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Vallenar (c. 44 900 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vallenar (min 5000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 90 km WSW of Vallenar, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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