Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 49 km ESE of Los Andes, Chile

A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Los Andes in Chile. 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 113.014 km (70 miles). Id of earthquake: us6000q50f. Event ids that are associated: us6000q50f. Exact location of event, longitude -70.0906 West, latitude -32.96 South, depth = 113.014 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/04/25 / 2025-04-09 22:30:13 / April 9, 2025 @ 10:30 pm. The temblor was detected at 22:30:13 / 10:30 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Bernardo, La Pintana, Puente Alto. Event epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Santiago (c. 4 837 300 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Puente Alto (c. 510 400 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from San Bernardo (c. 249 900 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from La Pintana (c. 201 200 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Lo Prado (c. 104 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from San Felipe (c. 59 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 eighteen 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: 49 km ESE of Los Andes, Chile.

Chile La Pintana Lo Prado Los Andes Puente Alto San Bernardo San Felipe Santiago

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-70.0906° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-32.96° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	113.014 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	49 km ESE of Los Andes, Chile	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-04-09 22:30:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-05-01 22:11:31	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	259	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	27	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.434	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.26 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	112	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	us6000q50f	Id of event.
Event Code	6000q50f	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000q50f,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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