Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 104 km E of Copiapó, Chile

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 104 km E of Copiapó, Chile (65 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 104.508 km (65 miles). Unique identifier: us7000pu4z. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000pu4z. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:54:04 / 5:54 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 22/04/25 / 2025-04-22 05:54:04 / April 22, 2025 @ 5:54 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -69.2918 West, latitude -27.5397 South, depth = 104.508 km.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 104 km E of Copiapó, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-69.2918° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-27.5397° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	104.508 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	104 km E of Copiapó, Chile	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-04-22 05:54:04	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-04-22 06:13:57	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	85	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.962	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.04 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	38	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	us7000pu4z	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pu4z	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pu4z,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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