A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Talagante in Chile. Exact location of event, depth 75.758 km, -70.8356° West, -33.6811° South. Unique identifier: us6000mwf1. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000mwf1. The temblor was picked up at 05:31:53 / 5:31 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 05/05/24 / 2024-05-05 05:31:53 / May 5, 2024 @ 5:31 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 75.758 km (47 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Event epicenter was 30 km (19 miles) from Santiago (c. 4 837 300 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Puente Alto (c. 510 400 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from San Bernardo (c. 249 900 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Rancagua (c. 212 700 pop), 22 km (13 miles) from La Pintana (c. 201 200 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Quilpué (c. 130 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Quilpué, Villa Alemana, San Vicente (min 5000 pop).
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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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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. 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: 8 km ESE of Talagante, Chile.
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