A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 98 kilometers (61 miles) from Los Andes in Chile. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rigb. Id of event: us6000rigb. Exact location, longitude -69.7204° West, latitude -32.3416° South, depth = 122.014 km. The temblor was detected at 14:08:37 / 2:08 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 21/10/25 / 2025-10-21 14:08:37 / October 21, 2025 @ 2:08 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 122.014 km (76 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Los Andes (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 99 km (61 miles) from Los Andes (c. 56 900 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 four and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. 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: 98 km ENE of Los Andes, Chile.

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