A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Chonchi in Chile. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 15:17:40 / 3:17 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000k9p5. Unique identifier: us2000k9p5. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 24.83 km (15 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -74.3109 West, latitude -42.6757 South, depth = 24.83 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/03/19 / 2019-03-26 19:17:40 / March 26, 2019 @ 7:17 pm.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Puerto Quellón, Castro, Chonchi (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 50 km (31 miles) from Castro (c. 29 900 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Puerto Quellón (c. 21 800 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Chonchi (c. 12 600 pop).
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 occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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: 41 km W of Chonchi, Chile.
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