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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Valparaíso in Chile

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Earthquake location -32.986S, -71.8777WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Valparaíso in Chile on Wednesday. Exact time and date of earthquake 25/12/24 / 2024-12-25 23:14:32 / December 25, 2024 @ 11:14 pm UTC/GMT. 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 23:14:32 / 11:14 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 24.285 km (15 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -71.8777 West, latitude -32.986 South, depth = 24.285 km. Event id: us6000pfm9. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pfm9.

The epicenter was 31 km (19 miles) from Viña del Mar (c. 294 600 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Valparaíso (c. 282 400 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Quilpué (c. 130 300 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Villa Alemana (c. 97 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from San Antonio (c. 85 700 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Quillota (c. 67 800 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Llaillay, La Ligua, San Antonio (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 23 km WNW of Valparaíso, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.8777° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -32.986° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24.285 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23 km WNW of Valparaíso, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-12-25 23:14:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-21 05:32:42 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 246 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 34 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.197 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 146 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 us6000pfm9 Id of event.
Event Code 6000pfm9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pfm9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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