A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Antofagasta in Chile. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/06/16 / 2016-06-21 00:22:01 / June 21, 2016 @ 12:22 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 17 km (11 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us200065mb. Unique identifier: us200065mb. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -70.34 West, latitude -23.69 South, depth = 17 km. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:22:01 / 8:22 pm (local time epicenter).
Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 7 km (4 miles) from Antofagasta (c. 309 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Antofagasta.
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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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: 7 km SE of Antofagasta, Chile.
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