M4.3 earthquake 30 km N of Iquique, Chile
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake struck 30 km N of Iquique, Chile on Tue, Jul 15, 2014, 7:12 AM GMT-4 (11:12 UTC), 45 km (28 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M5.3 14 km ENE of Iquique, Chile. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 4.3 (mwr), light
- Local time
- UTC
- 2014-07-15 11:12:22 UTC
- Depth
- 45.2 km (28.1 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 19.936° S, 70.112° W
- Region
- Chile
- Felt reports
- 3
- Tsunami flag
- No
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
Did you feel it?
3 people reported to the USGS what they felt; the strongest reported shaking was III, weak shaking.
Fault motion and ground failure
How the rock slipped, from the moment tensor, and the USGS estimate of landslides and liquefaction.
- Faulting
- Normal
- Moment magnitude
- 4.3 Mwr
- Nodal plane 1
- Strike 1°, dip 70°, rake -66°
- Nodal plane 2
- Strike 128°, dip 31°, rake -138°
How well it is located
Reviewed by a seismologist.
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.05
- Stations used
- 0
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 22 in the 60 days after this one and 25 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 5.075 km W of Iquique, Chile · 4451 days ago · 15 km deep · 83 km away
- 4.6Near the coast of Tarapaca, Chile · 4451 days ago · 15 km deep · 85 km away
- 5.046 km W of Iquique, Chile · 4449 days ago · 26 km deep · 55 km away
- 3.918 km ESE of Iquique, Chile · 4448 days ago · 51 km deep · 39 km away
- 4.489 km WNW of Iquique, Chile · 4445 days ago · 16 km deep · 89 km away
- 4.696 km WNW of Iquique, Chile · 4441 days ago · 10 km deep · 95 km away
- 4.435 km WNW of Iquique, Chile · 4441 days ago · 33 km deep · 44 km away
- 4.532 km WNW of Iquique, Chile · 4440 days ago · 29 km deep · 42 km away
- 4.265 km WSW of Iquique, Chile · 4438 days ago · 35 km deep · 89 km away
- 3.961 km WSW of Iquique, Chile · 4438 days ago · 25 km deep · 84 km away
- 4.185 km NW of Iquique, Chile · 4436 days ago · 43 km deep · 69 km away
- 4.276 km ESE of Iquique, Chile · 4425 days ago · 79 km deep · 88 km away
- 5.314 km ENE of Iquique, Chile · 4425 days ago · 51 km deep · 26 km away · felt by 23
- 4.272 km WNW of Iquique, Chile · 4424 days ago · 8 km deep · 74 km away
- 4.895 km WNW of Iquique, Chile · 4422 days ago · 10 km deep · 97 km away
- 4.195 km E of Iquique, Chile · 4421 days ago · 105 km deep · 91 km away
- 4.023 km WNW of Iquique, Chile · 4421 days ago · 40 km deep · 35 km away · felt by 1
- 3.9105 km ENE of Iquique, Chile · 4420 days ago · 103 km deep · 95 km away
- 4.798 km WNW of Iquique, Chile · 4414 days ago · 10 km deep · 98 km away
- 4.480 km NW of Iquique, Chile · 4411 days ago · 40 km deep · 66 km away
- 4.954 km SSW of Iquique, Chile · 4403 days ago · 35 km deep · 86 km away · felt by 1
- 4.386 km WNW of Iquique, Chile · 4396 days ago · 24 km deep · 84 km away
Before
- 5.521 km WSW of Iquique, Chile · 4456 days ago · 33 km deep · 43 km away · felt by 19
- 4.0124 km NE of Iquique, Chile · 4461 days ago · 100 km deep · 99 km away
- 4.181 km WNW of Iquique, Chile · 4464 days ago · 39 km deep · 85 km away
- 4.298 km WNW of Iquique, Chile · 4468 days ago · 15 km deep · 97 km away
- 4.128 km S of Iquique, Chile · 4468 days ago · 39 km deep · 59 km away
- 4.386 km WNW of Iquique, Chile · 4469 days ago · 20 km deep · 82 km away
- 3.851 km ESE of Iquique, Chile · 4471 days ago · 53 km deep · 64 km away
- 4.592 km WNW of Iquique, Chile · 4472 days ago · 12 km deep · 92 km away
- 4.262 km WSW of Iquique, Chile · 4473 days ago · 22 km deep · 80 km away
- 3.841 km N of Iquique, Chile · 4475 days ago · 47 km deep · 14 km away
- 3.993 km WNW of Iquique, Chile · 4476 days ago · 13 km deep · 95 km away
- 4.0105 km WNW of Iquique, Chile · 4479 days ago · 13 km deep · 98 km away
- 5.899 km WNW of Iquique, Chile · 4479 days ago · 12 km deep · 94 km away
- 4.289 km WNW of Iquique, Chile · 4479 days ago · 29 km deep · 82 km away
- 5.692 km WNW of Iquique, Chile · 4479 days ago · 13 km deep · 86 km away
- 5.282 km WNW of Iquique, Chile · 4480 days ago · 21 km deep · 78 km away
- 5.885 km WNW of Iquique, Chile · 4480 days ago · 11 km deep · 80 km away · felt by 5
- 4.682 km WNW of Iquique, Chile · 4480 days ago · 14 km deep · 84 km away
- 5.787 km WNW of Iquique, Chile · 4480 days ago · 11 km deep · 87 km away · felt by 3
- 4.175 km W of Iquique, Chile · 4481 days ago · 15 km deep · 85 km away
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