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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag was detected near Puerto in Chile

Posted by admin on May 29, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -20.2359S, -70.1992WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was reported 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Puerto in Chile on Thursday. Exact time and date of earthquake 29/05/25 / 2025-05-29 19:26:44 / May 29, 2025 @ 7:26 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 42.701 km (27 miles). Id of earthquake: us6000qgqy. Event ids that are associated: us6000qgqy. Exact location of event, longitude -70.1992 West, latitude -20.2359 South, depth = 42.701 km. The temblor was reported at 19:26:44 / 7:26 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 7 km (4 miles) from Iquique (c. 227 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Iquique (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor 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. 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: 5 km WSW of Puerto, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.1992° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.2359° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 42.701 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5 km WSW of Puerto, 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 19:26:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-29 21:49:05 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.9 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 190 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 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.073 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 188 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 us6000qgqy Id of event.
Event Code 6000qgqy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qgqy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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