On Wednesday, according to the National Seismological Center of the University of Chile, the earthquake had a magnitude of 4.8 and its epicenter was located 15.6 kilometers northwest of the metropolitan commune of Farellones, at a depth of 108 kilometers.
In some parts of the capital, the alarms installed in case of earthquakes of a certain power were triggered.
A report from the National Service for Disaster Forecasting and Response described the earthquake as medium intensity.
In Quillota, Valparaíso and San José del Maipo (Metropolitan Region) five degrees on the international Mercalli scale was reported and in the city of Santiago it was four.
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