A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, Southern East Pacific Rise (0 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us20003hme, gcmt20150909070544. Unique identifier: us20003hme. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/09/15 / 2015-09-09 07:05:44 / September 9, 2015 @ 7:05 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -116.3158 West, latitude -49.533 South, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 23:05:44 / 11:05 pm (local time epicenter).
Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes 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: Southern East Pacific Rise.
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