A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Illapel in Chile. Exact location of event, longitude -71.3928 West, latitude -31.7313 South, depth = 42.85 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us7000nskq. Event ids that are associated: us7000nskq. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 42.85 km (27 miles). The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:34:27 / 8:34 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 19/11/24 / 2024-11-19 08:34:27 / November 19, 2024 @ 8:34 am UTC/GMT.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Ligua, Salamanca, Illapel. Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 82 km (51 miles) from La Ligua (c. 24 900 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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: 23 km WSW of Illapel, Chile.
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