M5.2 Earthquake Near 28 km NE of Villa Presidente Frei, Chile Draws 3 Felt Reports
USGS Week reports M5.2 near 28 km NE of Villa Presidente Frei, Chile, with a 100.0 km catalog depth and 3 felt reports.
The event began at Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:52:07 GMT. USGS Week reports magnitude 5.2, 100.0 km catalog depth, and coordinates -33.311, -70.334.
The catalog location label is 28 km NE of Villa Presidente Frei, Chile; no separate nearest-city field was supplied with this solution. By catalog depth, this is an intermediate-depth event. The magnitude-derived energy estimate is 3.98e+12 joules, or about 951 tons of TNT equivalent; that calculation describes source energy, not local damage.
3 public felt reports are attached to the current catalog entry. Other attached observation fields include catalog significance score 417. No official casualty or damage statement is attached to the normalized event evidence.
The USGS Week catalog currently marks the solution as reviewed. No station-count, phase-count, residual, gap, or uncertainty fields were supplied in the normalized record. 1 alternate network solution is retained for comparison.
The provider record does not carry a tsunami flag at publication time. Magnitude, depth, and location can change as monitoring networks add observations and review the solution.
At a glance
- Magnitude 5.2
- 100.0 km catalog depth
- 3.98e+12 J magnitude-derived energy estimate
- Origin: Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:52:07 GMT
- 3 attached felt reports
- USGS Week monitoring record