A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Illapel in Chile. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 106.04 km (66 miles). Unique identifier: us6000pmsi. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000pmsi. Global time and date of event 28/01/25 / 2025-01-28 14:16:21 / January 28, 2025 @ 2:16 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -70.7301 West, latitude -31.3488 South, depth = 106.04 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:16:21 / 2:16 pm (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ovalle, Monte Patria, Salamanca (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 94 km (59 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop). Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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. 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: 52 km NE of Illapel, Chile.
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