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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag strikes near Puerto in Chile

Posted by admin on June 16, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -20.2743S, -70.317WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Puerto in Chile. The epicenter was at a depth of 40.095 km (25 miles). Global time and date of event 16/06/25 / 2025-06-16 00:51:16 / June 16, 2025 @ 12:51 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us6000qkhr. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000qkhr. Exact location, longitude -70.317° West, latitude -20.2743° South, depth = 40.095 km. The temblor was picked up at 00:51:16 / 12:51 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 20 km (12 miles) from Iquique (c. 227 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Iquique (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).

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 one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 18 km WSW of Puerto, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.317° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.2743° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 40.095 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18 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 2025-06-16 00:51:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-06-16 15:37:10 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.5 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 235 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 16 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.09 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 175 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 us6000qkhr Id of event.
Event Code 6000qkhr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qkhr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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