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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Los Andes in Chile

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Los Andes in Chile. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 111.888 km (70 miles). The temblor was picked up at 07:42:42 / 7:42 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 111.888 km, -70.3336° West, -32.9562° South. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000rv8q. Unique identifier: us6000rv8q. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/12/25 / 2025-12-16 07:42:42 / December 16, 2025 @ 7:42 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 63 km (39 miles) from Santiago (c. 4 837 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Puente Alto (c. 510 400 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from San Bernardo (c. 249 900 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from La Pintana (c. 201 200 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Lo Prado (c. 104 300 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Quillota (c. 67 800 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Peñaflor (c. 65 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Talagante, Buin, Peñaflor (min 5000 pop).

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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 28 km ESE of Los Andes, 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	-70.3336° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-32.9562° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	111.888 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	28 km ESE of Los Andes, Chile	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-12-16 07:42:42	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-16 08:00:35	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	75	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.265	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.64 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	50	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	us6000rv8q	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rv8q	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rv8q,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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