A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Ovalle in Chile. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -71.875 West, latitude -30.5997 South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us2000650g. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000650g. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 02:38:22 / 2:38 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/06/16 / 2016-06-17 06:38:22 / June 17, 2016 @ 6:38 am.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Serena, Coquimbo, Monte Patria (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 88 km (55 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop).
Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days five hundred and seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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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: 64 km W of Ovalle, Chile.
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