A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 76 kilometers (47 miles) from Coquimbo in Chile on Sunday. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -72.1265° West, -29.8492° South. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/12/15 / 2015-12-28 02:08:24 / December 28, 2015 @ 2:08 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us10004a0s. Unique identifier: us10004a0s. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:08:24 / 9:08 pm (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Serena, Coquimbo (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 76 km W of Coquimbo, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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