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Mon, 5 May 2025, 02:28 | BY: EARTHQUAKEMONITOR

Just 9 minutes ago, a 5.0-magnitude earthquake struck near Illapel, Provincia de Choapa, Region de Coquimbo, Chile. The tremor was recorded late at night on Sunday, May 4th, 2025, at 10:17 pm local time, at an intermediate depth of 96. km below the surface.
The event was filed by The National Seismological Center (Centro Sismológico Nacional, CSN) of the University of Chile, the first seismological agency to report it.
A second report was later issued by the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC), which listed it as a magnitude 5.0 earthquake as well. Other agencies reporting the same quake include the citizen-seismograph network of RaspberryShake at magnitude 4.9, and the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) at magnitude 4.9.
Generally quakes of this magnitude are recorded by more than one agency and the results can vary, with subsequent reports that come in after the first one often showing more accuracy.
Based on the preliminary seismic data, the quake should not have caused any significant damage, but was probably felt by many people as light vibration in the area of the epicenter.
Weak shaking might have been felt in Salamanca (pop. 13,300) located 21 km from the epicenter, and Illapel (pop. 22,800) 46 km away.
Other towns or cities near the epicenter where the quake might have been felt as very weak

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