A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 94 kilometers (58 miles) from San Antonio in Chile. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10.9 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 15:21:51 / 3:21 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/03/19 / 2019-03-02 20:21:51 / March 2, 2019 @ 8:21 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -72.6378° West, -33.664° South, depth 10.9 km. Event id: us1000j9yt. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000j9yt.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cartagena, San Antonio. Epicenter of the earthquake was 96 km (59 miles) from San Antonio (c. 85 700 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Cartagena (c. 16 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.
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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 94 km W of San Antonio, Chile.
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