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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 47 km NE of Illapel, Chile


Earthquake location -31.3087S, -70.8486WA 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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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -70.8486° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.3087° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 96.185 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 47 km NE of Illapel, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-10-22 13:09:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-10-23 13:16:07 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 284 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 26 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.167 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 107 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000rina Id of event.
Event Code 6000rina An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rina, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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