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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Villarrica in Chile

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Villarrica in Chile. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -72.3137 West, latitude -39.0628 South, depth = 95.072 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pfgw. Id of event: us6000pfgw. The temblor was picked up at 16:49:54 / 4:49 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 24/12/24 / 2024-12-24 16:49:54 / December 24, 2024 @ 4:49 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 95.072 km (59 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Traiguén, Victoria, Carahue (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 44 km (27 miles) from Temuco (c. 238 100 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Villarrica (c. 31 600 pop), 39 km (25 miles) from Pucón (c. 27 000 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Victoria (c. 24 600 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Lautaro (c. 21 600 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Nueva Imperial (c. 18 800 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Panguipulli (c. 16 300 pop).

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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 25 km NNW of Villarrica, Chile.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-72.3137° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-39.0628° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	95.072 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	25 km NNW of Villarrica, Chile	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-12-24 16:49:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-24 17:17:45	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	340	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	55	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.835	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.67 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	87	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mwr	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us6000pfgw	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pfgw	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pfgw,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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