A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Salamanca in Chile. Exact location, longitude -71.2013° West, latitude -31.9289° South, depth = 71.13 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 71.13 km (44 miles). Id of earthquake: us600057jr. Event ids that are associated: us600057jr. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/08/19 / 2019-08-20 17:33:44 / August 20, 2019 @ 5:33 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 13:33:44 / 1:33 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Ligua, Illapel, Salamanca. Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Event epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from La Ligua (c. 24 900 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 four and in the last 365 days thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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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. 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: 27 km SW of Salamanca, Chile.
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