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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Calama in Chile

Posted by admin on December 24, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -22.5911S, -68.9864WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Calama in Chile on Wednesday. Id of earthquake: us7000rkj7. Event ids that are associated: us7000rkj7. Exact location of event, longitude -68.9864 West, latitude -22.5911 South, depth = 110.713 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:10:11 / 6:10 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/12/25 / 2025-12-24 06:10:11 / December 24, 2025 @ 6:10 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 110.713 km (69 miles). 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 Calama. The epicenter was 16 km (10 miles) from Calama (c. 143 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 nine and in the last 365 days eighty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 16 km SSW of Calama, Chile. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -68.9864° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -22.5911° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 110.713 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16 km SSW of Calama, Chile Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-12-24 06:10:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-12-24 07:17:59 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 37 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.553 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 49 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 us7000rkj7 Id of event.
Event Code 7000rkj7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000rkj7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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