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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Taltal in Chile


Earthquake location -25.007S, -70.9444WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Taltal in Chile. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -70.9444 West, latitude -25.007 South, depth = 24.767 km. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:14:13 / 5:14 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us7000pb63. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000pb63. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/02/25 / 2025-02-04 05:14:13 / February 4, 2025 @ 5:14 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 24.767 km (15 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquake epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Taltal (c. 10 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Taltal (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 two and in the last 365 days seven 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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 64 km NW of Taltal, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.9444° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -25.007° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24.767 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64 km NW of Taltal, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-02-04 05:14:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-24 08:13:10 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 312 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 29 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.237 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 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 mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000pb63 Id of event.
Event Code 7000pb63 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pb63, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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