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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Vallenar in Chile

Posted by admin on February 13, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -28.9908S, -71.3769WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 75 kilometers (47 miles) from Vallenar in Chile. Exact location of event, longitude -71.3769 West, latitude -28.9908 South, depth = 37.903 km. The temblor was picked up at 07:11:30 / 7:11 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000pdc7. Unique identifier: us7000pdc7. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/02/25 / 2025-02-13 07:11:30 / February 13, 2025 @ 7:11 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 37.903 km (24 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 Vallenar (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Vallenar (c. 44 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 75 km SW of Vallenar, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.3769° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -28.9908° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37.903 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 75 km SW of Vallenar, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-02-13 07:11:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-13 07:29:17 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 50 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.593 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 141 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 us7000pdc7 Id of event.
Event Code 7000pdc7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pdc7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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