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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Taltal in Chile


Earthquake location -25.7487S, -70.6142WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Taltal in Chile. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us7000nzkr. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000nzkr. The epicenter was at a depth of 57.041 km (35 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/12/24 / 2024-12-17 16:23:35 / December 17, 2024 @ 4:23 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -70.6142° West, -25.7487° South, depth 57.041 km. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:23:35 / 4:23 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Diego de Almagro (c. 18 100 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Taltal (c. 10 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Diego de Almagro, Taltal.

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 39 km SSW of Taltal, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.6142° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -25.7487° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 57.041 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 39 km SSW of Taltal, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-12-17 16:23:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-17 17:38:11 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 56 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.398 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 138 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 us7000nzkr Id of event.
Event Code 7000nzkr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nzkr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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