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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 32 km WNW of Illapel, Chile


Earthquake location -31.5223S, -71.4863WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Illapel in Chile. Exact location of event, depth 48.458 km, -71.4863° West, -31.5223° South. Global time and date of event 05/03/25 / 2025-03-05 10:01:59 / March 5, 2025 @ 10:01 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000px0b. Id of event: us6000px0b. 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 48.458 km (30 miles). The temblor was detected at 10:01:59 / 10:01 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Salamanca, Illapel. Epicenter of the event was 32 km (20 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 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 one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 32 km WNW of Illapel, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.4863° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.5223° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 48.458 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 32 km WNW of Illapel, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-03-05 10:01:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-03-05 10:24:55 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 355 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 65 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.523 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 100 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 us6000px0b Id of event.
Event Code 6000px0b An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000px0b, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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