A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from San Pedro de Atacama in Chile. Exact time and date of earthquake 03/07/24 / 2024-07-03 18:20:34 / July 3, 2024 @ 6:20 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: usd0011dnn. Unique identifier: usd0011dnn. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 93.864 km (58 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.5811 West, latitude -22.9565 South, depth = 93.864 km. The temblor was reported at 18:20:34 / 6:20 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Calama (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 66 km (41 miles) from Calama (c. 143 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).
Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 39 km W of San Pedro de Atacama, Chile.
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