Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Ovalle in Chile

A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Ovalle in Chile. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 40.771 km (25 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rphe. Id of event: us6000rphe. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:39:29 / 2:39 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -71.4747° West, -30.7386° South, depth 40.771 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/11/25 / 2025-11-21 02:39:29 / November 21, 2025 @ 2:39 am.

Close country/countries, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from Coquimbo (c. 161 300 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from La Serena (c. 154 500 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Ovalle (c. 77 100 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Monte Patria (c. 13 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Serena, Coquimbo, Monte Patria.

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 two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 30 km WSW of Ovalle, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-71.4747° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-30.7386° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	40.771 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	30 km WSW 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	2025-11-21 02:39:29	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-11-21 03:52:07	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	312	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	36	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.617	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.99 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	86	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	us6000rphe	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rphe	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rphe,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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