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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 70 km WSW of Illapel, Chile


Earthquake location -31.9645S, -71.803WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Illapel in Chile. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 39.939 km (25 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/06/24 / 2024-06-25 22:36:24 / June 25, 2024 @ 10:36 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -71.803 West, latitude -31.9645 South, depth = 39.939 km. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:36:24 / 10:36 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000n86h. Id of event: us6000n86h. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Salamanca, La Ligua, Illapel. Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from La Ligua (c. 24 900 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 70 km WSW of Illapel, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.803° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.9645° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39.939 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70 km WSW of Illapel, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-06-25 22:36:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-18 21:56:26 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 326 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 39 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.022 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 117 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000n86h Id of event.
Event Code 6000n86h An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000n86h, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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