1402 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquake/news/239091/Magnitude-43-earthquake-strikes-near-Valparaiso-Provincia-de-Valparaiso-Chile.htmlA moderately shallow magnitude 4.3 earthquake was reported early evening near Valparaiso, Provincia de Valparaíso, Chile. According to The National Seismological Center (Centro Sismológico Nacional, CSN) of the University of Chile, the quake hit on Saturday, April 13th, 2024, at 7:01 pm local time at a moderately shallow depth of 35 km.2024-04-14T01:32+0200volcanodiscovery-2e612b90fc4290e6a922ba353a36793820240414013200https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/9160227/quake-felt-Apr-13-2024-Near-Vina-del-Mar-Valparaiso-Chile.htmlNearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Viña del Mar , a city with more than 290,000 inhabitants in Chile , in 53 km (33 mi) distance south of the epicenter. People likely experienced weak shaking there. Several smaller towns and villages are located closer to....2024-04-14T01:10+0200volcanodiscovery-08568438180e1d0044f2b4fe95b69be620240414011000https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/9159131/mag4quake-Apr-13-2024-Antofagasta-Chile.htmlBased on data from the past 14 years and our earthquake archive back to 1900, there are about 1,000 quakes on average per year in the area near the epicenter of this quake (within 100 km/61 mi): Mag. 6 or higher: 0.23 quakes per year (or 1 quake every 4.4 years) Mag. 5 or higher: 3.5 quakes per year; Mag.2024-04-13T22:01+0200volcanodiscovery-de16eddb98642b07d3b26454cfab686120240413220100https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01364-0Globally, the largest tsunamigenic earthquakes have occurred along subduction zones. Devastating events exceeding magnitude 9, such as those in Chile, Sumatra, and Japan, struck in regions lacking instrumental records of similar events. Despite the absence of such events along the....2024-04-13T05:41+0200nature-Earth-and-Environmental-Sciences-56bd7300bbece08332d6617f3fbed64420240413054100