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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Cartagena in Chile

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Cartagena in Chile. Unique identifier: us7000px3w. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000px3w. The temblor was picked up at 15:56:11 / 3:56 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/05/25 / 2025-05-04 15:56:11 / May 4, 2025 @ 3:56 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 26.088 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 26.088 km, -72.2049° West, -33.3915° South.

Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 73 km (45 miles) from Viña del Mar (c. 294 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Valparaíso (c. 282 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Quilpué (c. 130 300 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Villa Alemana (c. 97 300 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from San Antonio (c. 85 700 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Cartagena (c. 16 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Villa Alemana, Quilpué, Viña del Mar (min 5000 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 58 km WNW of Cartagena, 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	-72.2049° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-33.3915° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	26.088 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	58 km WNW of Cartagena, Chile	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-05-04 15:56:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-05-04 16:14:17	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	33	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.56	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.89 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	159	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	us7000px3w	Id of event.
Event Code	7000px3w	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000px3w,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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