Strong earthquake, 6.1 mag strikes near Calama in Chile

A earthquake with magnitude 6.1 (ml/mb) was reported 83 kilometers (52 miles) from Calama in Chile on Thursday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/01/25 / 2025-01-02 20:43:35 / January 2, 2025 @ 8:43 pm. Exact location, longitude -69.0813° West, latitude -21.7179° South, depth = 104.566 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 104.566 km (65 miles). Id of earthquake: us6000phap. Event ids that are associated: us6000phap. The 6.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:43:35 / 8:43 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tocopilla, Calama. Earthquake epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Calama (c. 143 100 pop), 122 km (76 miles) from Tocopilla (c. 24 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days eighty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 83 km N of Calama, Chile.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-69.0813° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-21.7179° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	104.566 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	83 km N of Calama, Chile	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-01-02 20:43:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-02 21:05:29	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	3.3	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.519	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	573	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	106	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.168	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.24 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	55	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us6000phap	Id of event.
Event Code	6000phap	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000phap,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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