A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Tocopilla in Chile. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/12/24 / 2024-12-02 23:26:10 / December 2, 2024 @ 11:26 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -69.9678 West, latitude -21.4116 South, depth = 55.532 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 55.532 km (35 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000nvja. Unique identifier: us7000nvja. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:26:10 / 11:26 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tocopilla (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 79 km (49 miles) from Tocopilla (c. 24 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 79 km NNE of Tocopilla, Chile.
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