A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 91 kilometers (57 miles) from Taltal in Chile. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -70.5464 West, latitude -24.5794 South, depth = 23.543 km. The temblor was picked up at 03:30:55 / 3:30 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000r00i. Unique identifier: us6000r00i. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 23.543 km (15 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/08/25 / 2025-08-12 03:30:55 / August 12, 2025 @ 3:30 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Event epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Taltal (c. 10 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Taltal (min 5000 pop). Nearby 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. 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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 91 km N of Taltal, Chile.
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