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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 38 km SW of Salamanca, Chile

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Salamanca in Chile. The temblor was picked up at 07:38:45 / 7:38 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/01/25 / 2025-01-23 07:38:45 / January 23, 2025 @ 7:38 am. Id of earthquake: us6000pls1. Event ids that are associated: us6000pls1. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 76.837 km (48 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -71.2277 West, latitude -32.0468 South, depth = 76.837 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Quillota, Llaillay, San Felipe (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Quillota (c. 67 800 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from San Felipe (c. 59 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Hacienda La Calera (c. 49 100 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from La Ligua (c. 24 900 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Llaillay (c. 16 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 38 km SW of Salamanca, Chile.

Chile Hacienda La Calera Illapel La Ligua Llaillay Quillota Salamanca San Felipe

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-71.2277° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-32.0468° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	76.837 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	38 km SW of Salamanca, Chile	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-01-23 07:38:45	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-23 07:58:53	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	298	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	33	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.215	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.54 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	145	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	us6000pls1	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pls1	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pls1,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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