A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Putre in Chile. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -69.5084 West, latitude -18.7832 South, depth = 132.48 km. Id of earthquake: us60006bdk. Event ids that are associated: us60006bdk. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/11/19 / 2019-11-14 05:40:02 / November 14, 2019 @ 5:40 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 132.48 km (82 miles). The temblor was reported at 01:40:02 / 1:40 am (local time epicenter).
Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Event epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Arica (c. 186 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arica (min 5000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 64 km S of Putre, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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