A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 81 kilometers (50 miles) from Iquique in Chile. The temblor was detected at 18:59:10 / 6:59 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -69.3902° West, latitude -20.4188° South, depth = 94.22 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 94.22 km (59 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us100061gk. Unique identifier: us100061gk. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/07/16 / 2016-07-06 22:59:10 / July 6, 2016 @ 10:59 pm.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Iquique (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 81 km (50 miles) from Iquique (c. 227 500 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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