A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Calama in Chile. Exact location of event, longitude -68.4374 West, latitude -22.4115 South, depth = 114.168 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 114.168 km (71 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/11/24 / 2024-11-24 12:57:18 / November 24, 2024 @ 12:57 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000p7fm. Unique identifier: us6000p7fm. The temblor was detected at 12:57:18 / 12:57 pm (local time epicenter). 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). Earthquake epicenter was 51 km (32 miles) from Calama (c. 143 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Calama.
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
Did you feel anything?
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: 50 km E of Calama, Chile.
Copyright © 2024 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.
Leave a Reply