A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 72 kilometers (45 miles) from Constitucion in Chile. Unique identifier: us20002y48. Ids that are associated to the event: us20002y48. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -73.1865 West, latitude -35.5097 South, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 06:11:22 / 6:11 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/07/15 / 2015-07-17 11:11:22 / July 17, 2015 @ 11:11 am.
Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Event epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Constitución (c. 37 900 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Cauquenes (c. 31 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cauquenes, Constitución (min 5000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.
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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: 72 km WSW of Constitucion, Chile.
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