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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag strikes near Huara in Chile

Posted by admin on May 6, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -19.6388S, -69.9927WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Huara in Chile. Exact location of event, depth 60.403 km, -69.9927° West, -19.6388° South. The 3.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:58:47 / 4:58 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/05/25 / 2025-05-05 16:58:47 / May 5, 2025 @ 4:58 pm. Id of earthquake: us7000pxa4. Event ids that are associated: us7000pxa4. The epicenter was at a depth of 60.403 km (38 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Iquique (c. 227 500 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Iquique (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 45 km NNW of Huara, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -69.9927° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -19.6388° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 60.403 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45 km NNW of Huara, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-05-05 16:58:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-06 15:28:50 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 2 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 235 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 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.642 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 153 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000pxa4 Id of event.
Event Code 7000pxa4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pxa4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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