A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 40 kilometers (25 miles) from San Antonio in Chile on Tuesday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/09/15 / 2015-09-15 15:28:58 / September 15, 2015 @ 3:28 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 25.43 km (16 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -72.009 West, latitude -33.763 South, depth = 25.43 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us20003jm7. Unique identifier: us20003jm7. The temblor was reported at 12:28:58 / 12:28 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Viña del Mar, Valparaíso, Melipilla. Epicenter of the earthquake was 92 km (57 miles) from Viña del Mar (c. 294 600 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Valparaíso (c. 282 400 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from San Antonio (c. 85 700 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Melipilla (c. 63 100 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Cartagena (c. 16 900 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-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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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. 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: 40 km WSW of San Antonio, Chile.
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