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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Cañete in Chile

Posted by admin on July 17, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -37.8738S, -73.7055WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Cañete in Chile. Id of earthquake: us7000qcz4. Event ids that are associated: us7000qcz4. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 14.782 km (9 miles). The temblor was picked up at 12:03:10 / 12:03 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 16/07/25 / 2025-07-16 12:03:10 / July 16, 2025 @ 12:03 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -73.7055 West, latitude -37.8738 South, depth = 14.782 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Angol, Arauco, Curanilahue (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Angol (c. 44 900 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Curanilahue (c. 30 600 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Arauco (c. 24 700 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Lebu (c. 22 300 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Cañete (c. 20 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eleven 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. 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: 28 km WSW of Cañete, Chile.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -73.7055° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -37.8738° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.782 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28 km WSW of Cañete, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-07-16 12:03:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-17 04:19:40 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 259 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 26 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.015 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 148 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000qcz4 Id of event.
Event Code 7000qcz4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qcz4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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