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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near La Serena in Chile

Posted by admin on June 28, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -29.7094S, -71.2858WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from La Serena in Chile. Exact time and date of earthquake 28/06/25 / 2025-06-28 09:58:39 / June 28, 2025 @ 9:58 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us7000q9cc. Event ids that are associated: us7000q9cc. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:58:39 / 9:58 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 52.815 km (33 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -71.2858 West, latitude -29.7094 South, depth = 52.815 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ovalle, Vicuña, Coquimbo. The epicenter was 28 km (17 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Vicuña (c. 13 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 21 km N of La Serena, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -71.2858° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -29.7094° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 52.815 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21 km N of La Serena, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-06-28 09:58:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-06-28 10:17:33 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 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 355 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 49 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.212 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 125 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 us7000q9cc Id of event.
Event Code 7000q9cc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000q9cc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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