A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Illapel in Chile. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -70.8486 West, latitude -31.3087 South, depth = 96.185 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:09:57 / 1:09 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000rina. Unique identifier: us6000rina. The epicenter was at a depth of 96.185 km (60 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/10/25 / 2025-10-22 13:09:57 / October 22, 2025 @ 1:09 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ovalle, Monte Patria, Salamanca. The epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Illapel (c. 22 800 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Salamanca (c. 13 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 47 km NE of Illapel, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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