A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Ovalle in Chile. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/12/16 / 2016-12-19 15:36:46 / December 19, 2016 @ 3:36 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 25.34 km (16 miles). The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:36:46 / 11:36 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -71.5192 West, latitude -30.7569 South, depth = 25.34 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us200082kn. Unique identifier: us200082kn.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Illapel, La Serena, Coquimbo (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 91 km (57 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-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.
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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: 35 km WSW of Ovalle, Chile.
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