A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Coquimbo in Chile. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000qv1e. Unique identifier: us7000qv1e. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/09/25 / 2025-09-09 17:35:15 / September 9, 2025 @ 5:35 pm. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:35:15 / 5:35 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 20.132 km (13 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -71.9219 West, latitude -29.5743 South, depth = 20.132 km.
Earthquake epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Serena, Coquimbo.
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.
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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: 70 km NW of Coquimbo, Chile.
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