Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag was detected near Ovalle in Chile

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) strikes 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Ovalle in Chile on Thursday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/10/25 / 2025-10-02 10:43:55 / October 2, 2025 @ 10:43 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -71.8514 West, latitude -30.6637 South, depth = 19.467 km. Event id: us6000re62. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000re62. The temblor was picked up at 10:43:55 / 10:43 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 19.467 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Serena, Coquimbo, Monte Patria (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 102 km (64 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 62 km W of Ovalle, Chile.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-71.8514° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-30.6637° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	19.467 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	62 km W of Ovalle, Chile	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-10-02 10:43:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-02 11:01:43	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	449	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	81	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.187	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.27 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	84	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us6000re62	Id of event.
Event Code	6000re62	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000re62,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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