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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Ollagüe in Chile


Earthquake location -21.7952S, -68.363WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Ollagüe in Chile. Exact location of event, longitude -68.363 West, latitude -21.7952 South, depth = 120.839 km. Id of earthquake: us6000qglj. Event ids that are associated: us6000qglj. The temblor was reported at 08:39:54 / 8:39 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 29/05/25 / 2025-05-29 08:39:54 / May 29, 2025 @ 8:39 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 120.839 km (75 miles).

The epicenter was 94 km (58 miles) from Calama (c. 143 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Calama. Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 64 km S of Ollagüe, Chile.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.363° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -21.7952° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 120.839 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64 km S of Ollagüe, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-05-29 08:39:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-29 08:55:53 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 326 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 77 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.817 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 60 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 us6000qglj Id of event.
Event Code 6000qglj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qglj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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