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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Calama in Chile

Posted by admin on May 27, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -22.0009S, -68.6463WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Calama in Chile on Tuesday. The temblor was reported at 06:51:57 / 6:51 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -68.6463° West, -22.0009° South, depth 117.513 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 117.513 km (73 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 06/05/25 / 2025-05-06 06:51:57 / May 6, 2025 @ 6:51 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us7000pxfw. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pxfw. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Calama. Earthquake epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Calama (c. 143 100 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 58 km NNE of Calama, Chile. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.6463° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -22.0009° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 117.513 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58 km NNE of Calama, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-05-06 06:51:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-27 09:05:33 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 271 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 32 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.589 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 103 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 us7000pxfw Id of event.
Event Code 7000pxfw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pxfw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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