A light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 87 kilometers (54 miles) from Coquimbo in Chile. Exact location, longitude -72.1431° West, latitude -30.3187° South, depth = 10 km. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:49:05 / 2:49 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us70006tv1. Ids that are associated to the event: us70006tv1. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/01/20 / 2020-01-02 19:49:05 / January 2, 2020 @ 7:49 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Coquimbo (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 87 km (54 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).
Every 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 three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days eighty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 87 km WSW of Coquimbo, Chile.
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