A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 68 kilometers (42 miles) from Calama in Chile. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 111.831 km (69 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -69.2504 West, latitude -22.9997 South, depth = 111.831 km. Unique identifier: us7000qe8i. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000qe8i. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/07/25 / 2025-07-21 09:53:22 / July 21, 2025 @ 9:53 am. The temblor was picked up at 09:53:22 / 9:53 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Epicenter of the event was 69 km (43 miles) from Calama (c. 143 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Calama. Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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: 68 km SSW of Calama, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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