A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 71 kilometers (44 miles) from Putre in Chile. The temblor was detected at 01:50:37 / 1:50 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/03/19 / 2019-03-07 05:50:37 / March 7, 2019 @ 5:50 am. Exact location of event, longitude -69.4001 West, latitude -18.8288 South, depth = 110.77 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000jbqi. Unique identifier: us1000jbqi. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 110.77 km (69 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arica. Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 102 km (64 miles) from Arica (c. 186 000 pop).
There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 71 km SSE of Putre, Chile.
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