A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Iquique in Chile. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -70.8737 West, latitude -20.3482 South, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us70005crj. Unique identifier: us70005crj. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:07:30 / 8:07 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 06/09/19 / 2019-09-06 13:07:30 / September 6, 2019 @ 1:07 pm UTC/GMT.
Event epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Iquique (c. 227 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Iquique (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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