A earthquake magnitude 6.8 (ml/mb) strikes 97 kilometers (60 miles) from Coquimbo in Chile on Tuesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 11/11/15 / 2015-11-11 02:46:19 / November 11, 2015 @ 2:46 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 21:46:19 / 9:46 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -72.1924° West, -29.4851° South, depth 10 km. Unique identifier: us10003x9g. Ids that are associated to the event: us10003x9g.
Epicenter of the event was 97 km (61 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 102 km (64 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Serena, Coquimbo (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days ninety-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. There are an estimated 135 quakes in the world each year.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 97 km WNW of Coquimbo, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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