A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Iquique in Chile. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -70.132 West, latitude -19.925 South, depth = 45.4 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us60009cl9. Unique identifier: us60009cl9. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 45.4 km (28 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:01:15 / 1:01 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/04/20 / 2020-04-26 05:01:15 / April 26, 2020 @ 5:01 am.
Event epicenter was 33 km (20 miles) from Iquique (c. 227 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Iquique (min 5000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.
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