A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 36 kilometers (22 miles) from San Pedro de Atacama in Chile. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qlvt. Id of event: us6000qlvt. The temblor was reported at 01:40:34 / 1:40 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/06/25 / 2025-06-23 01:40:34 / June 23, 2025 @ 1:40 am. Exact location, longitude -68.5464° West, latitude -22.9878° South, depth = 119.065 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 119.065 km (74 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Event epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Calama (c. 143 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Calama (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days seventy-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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: 36 km WSW of San Pedro de Atacama, Chile.
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