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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Calama in Chile

Posted by admin on June 15, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -22.3399S, -68.6815WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Calama in Chile. Exact time and date of earthquake 15/06/25 / 2025-06-15 13:30:08 / June 15, 2025 @ 1:30 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 117.138 km (73 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:30:08 / 1:30 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us6000qkfl. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qkfl. Exact location of earthquake, -68.6815° West, -22.3399° South, depth 117.138 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Calama. Earthquake epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) from Calama (c. 143 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days ninety-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 28 km ENE of Calama, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.6815° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -22.3399° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 117.138 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28 km ENE 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 2025-06-15 13:30:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-06-15 14:51:58 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 284 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 28 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.75 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 46 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 us6000qkfl Id of event.
Event Code 6000qkfl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qkfl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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