Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Coquimbo in Chile

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Coquimbo in Chile. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/02/25 / 2025-02-06 04:15:13 / February 6, 2025 @ 4:15 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 50.087 km (31 miles). Exact location of event, depth 50.087 km, -71.2882° West, -30.0276° South. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:15:13 / 4:15 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us7000pbr1. Event ids that are associated: us7000pbr1.

Epicenter of the event was 10 km (6 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Vicuña (c. 13 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Monte Patria, Ovalle, Vicuña. Close 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 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: 9 km SSE of Coquimbo, Chile.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-71.2882° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-30.0276° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	50.087 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9 km SSE of Coquimbo, Chile	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-02-06 04:15:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-02-06 05:50:43	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	46	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.117	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	124	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	us7000pbr1	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pbr1	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pbr1,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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