A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 95 kilometers (59 miles) from Vallenar in Chile. Exact location of event, depth 10.683 km, -71.5778° West, -29.0511° South. Global time and date of event 02/08/25 / 2025-08-02 06:48:12 / August 2, 2025 @ 6:48 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qxlg. Id of event: us6000qxlg. 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 10.683 km (7 miles). The temblor was picked up at 06:48:12 / 6:48 am (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Vallenar (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 96 km (59 miles) from Vallenar (c. 44 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-eight 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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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 95 km WSW of Vallenar, Chile.
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