A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Putre in Chile. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/11/19 / 2019-11-21 04:52:19 / November 21, 2019 @ 4:52 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70006atx. Id of event: us70006atx. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 129.39 km (80 miles). Exact location, longitude -69.5121° West, latitude -18.1771° South, depth = 129.39 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 00:52:19 / 12:52 am (local time epicenter).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arica, Tacna. Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop), Peru (c. 29 907 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 80 km (50 miles) from Tacna (c. 280 100 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Arica (c. 186 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 5 km ENE of Putre, Chile.
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