A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Ovalle in Chile. Global time and date of event 07/07/16 / 2016-07-07 21:54:05 / July 7, 2016 @ 9:54 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us100061qx. Ids that are associated to the event: us100061qx. Exact location of earthquake, -71.5926° West, -30.5693° South, depth 36.59 km. The temblor was picked up at 17:54:05 / 5:54 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 36.59 km (23 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Serena, Coquimbo, Monte Patria. Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 73 km (45 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 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 two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days four hundred and eighty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 37 km W of Ovalle, Chile.
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