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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near La Ensenada in Chile

Posted by admin on April 19, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -41.4283S, -72.358WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from La Ensenada in Chile. Unique identifier: us6000q723. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000q723. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/04/25 / 2025-04-18 17:14:25 / April 18, 2025 @ 5:14 pm. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:14:25 / 5:14 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.478 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -72.358 West, latitude -41.4283 South, depth = 9.478 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Country/countries that might be effected, Argentina (c. 41 343 000 pop), Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 49 km (30 miles) from Puerto Montt (c. 160 100 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from San Carlos de Bariloche (c. 95 400 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Puerto Varas (c. 25 000 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Frutillar (c. 16 900 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from El Bolsón (c. 15 500 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Purranque (c. 13 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Carlos de Bariloche, El Bolsón, Purranque.

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

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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 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: 28 km SSE of La Ensenada, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.358° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -41.4283° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.478 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28 km SSE of La Ensenada, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-04-18 17:14:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-04-19 14:36:24 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 298 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 26 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.292 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 139 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 us6000q723 Id of event.
Event Code 6000q723 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000q723, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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