A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 87 kilometers (54 miles) from Illapel in Chile. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 10:38:48 / 10:38 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us20003m7e. Unique identifier: us20003m7e. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -72.0757 West, latitude -31.7531 South, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/09/15 / 2015-09-20 15:38:48 / September 20, 2015 @ 3:38 pm.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Illapel. Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been twelve, in the last 10 days one hundred and five, in the past 30 days one hundred and five and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. 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: 87 km W of Illapel, Chile.
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