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Minor earthquake 3.9 mag, 25 km WNW of Puerto, Chile

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Earthquake location -20.093S, -70.358WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Puerto in Chile. Global time and date of event 04/01/25 / 2025-01-04 09:03:41 / January 4, 2025 @ 9:03 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 42.079 km (26 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:03:41 / 9:03 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -70.358 West, latitude -20.093 South, depth = 42.079 km. Event id: us6000phty. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000phty.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Iquique (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 27 km (17 miles) from Iquique (c. 227 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 25 km WNW of Puerto, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.358° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.093° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 42.079 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25 km WNW of Puerto, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-01-04 09:03:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-05 07:52:57 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 234 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 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.277 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.43 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 165 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 us6000phty Id of event.
Event Code 6000phty An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000phty, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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