A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Calama in Chile. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 133.2 km (83 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:55:17 / 10:55 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/02/19 / 2019-02-02 02:55:17 / February 2, 2019 @ 2:55 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000jc9g. Unique identifier: us2000jc9g. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.5746 West, latitude -22.4332 South, depth = 133.2 km.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Calama (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) from Calama (c. 143 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days sixty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 37 km E of Calama, Chile.
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