A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Illapel in Chile. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 39.939 km (25 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/06/24 / 2024-06-25 22:36:24 / June 25, 2024 @ 10:36 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -71.803 West, latitude -31.9645 South, depth = 39.939 km. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:36:24 / 10:36 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000n86h. Id of event: us6000n86h. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Salamanca, La Ligua, Illapel. Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from La Ligua (c. 24 900 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 70 km WSW of Illapel, Chile.
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