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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near San Pedro de Atacama in Chile

Posted by admin on May 29, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -23.1427S, -68.6558WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from San Pedro de Atacama in Chile. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 108.697 km (68 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 29/05/25 / 2025-05-29 00:40:14 / May 29, 2025 @ 12:40 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qgjn. Id of event: us6000qgjn. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:40:14 / 12:40 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -68.6558 West, latitude -23.1427 South, depth = 108.697 km.

Event epicenter was 81 km (51 miles) from Calama (c. 143 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Calama (min 5000 pop).

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 six and in the last 365 days sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 53 km WSW of San Pedro de Atacama, 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 -68.6558° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -23.1427° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 108.697 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53 km WSW of San Pedro de Atacama, 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 00:40:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-29 00:55:07 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 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.479 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 136 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 us6000qgjn Id of event.
Event Code 6000qgjn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qgjn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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