Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Los Andes in Chile

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Los Andes in Chile. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000pur7. Unique identifier: us7000pur7. Exact location of event, depth 110.937 km, -70.1324° West, -32.7702° South. The temblor was detected at 15:12:39 / 3:12 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 110.937 km (69 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/04/25 / 2025-04-24 15:12:39 / April 24, 2025 @ 3:12 pm.

The epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Santiago (c. 4 837 300 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from San Felipe (c. 59 300 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Los Andes (c. 56 900 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Lampa (c. 29 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Chicureo Abajo (c. 18 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Llaillay (c. 16 600 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santiago, Lampa, Villa Presidente Frei, Ñuñoa, Santiago, Chile (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).

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

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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. 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: 44 km E of Los Andes, Chile.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-70.1324° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-32.7702° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	110.937 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	44 km E 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	2025-04-24 15:12:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-05-09 19:08:57	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	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	29	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.352	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.57 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	123	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	us7000pur7	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pur7	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pur7,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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