A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from San Pedro de Atacama in Chile. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/12/25 / 2025-12-05 08:15:53 / December 5, 2025 @ 8:15 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000rfqr. Id of event: us7000rfqr. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -68.5316 West, latitude -23.1379 South, depth = 110.508 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 110.508 km (69 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:15:53 / 8:15 am (local time epicenter).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Calama. Epicenter of the event was 86 km (54 miles) from Calama (c. 143 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 42 km SW of San Pedro de Atacama, Chile.
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