M5.6 earthquake 61 km NE of Calama, Chile
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck 61 km NE of Calama, Chile on Tue, May 26, 2015, 7:32 AM GMT-3 (10:32 UTC), 124 km (77 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M6.0 50 km E of Calama, Chile. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 5.6 (mww), moderate
- Local time
- UTC
- 2015-05-26 10:32:03 UTC
- Depth
- 124.0 km (77.1 mi), intermediate-depth
- Epicenter
- 22.057° S, 68.508° W
- Region
- Chile
- Felt reports
- 3
- Strongest shaking
- IV, light shaking
- PAGER alert
- Green
- Tsunami flag
- No
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
Shaking
The USGS ShakeMap: shaking estimated from seismic stations and the quake’s size, on the Modified Mercalli intensity scale.
- Strongest estimated
- IV, light shaking
- Map
- Automatic
Did you feel it?
3 people reported to the USGS what they felt; the strongest reported shaking was VI, strong shaking.
Estimated impact
The USGS PAGER system estimates deaths and economic losses from the shaking and the population and buildings exposed to it.
- Alert level
- Green: little or no damage or loss of life expected
Fault motion and ground failure
How the rock slipped, from the moment tensor, and the USGS estimate of landslides and liquefaction.
- Faulting
- Oblique normal
- Moment magnitude
- 5.6 Mww
- Nodal plane 1
- Strike 11°, dip 77°, rake -51°
- Nodal plane 2
- Strike 116°, dip 40°, rake -160°
How well it is located
Reviewed by a seismologist.
- Location uncertainty
- About 5.3 km horizontally, 1.8 km in depth
- Depth from
- From modeling of broad-band P waveforms
- Station coverage gap
- 31°
- Stations used
- 495
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 2.6 and up: 14 in the 60 days after this one and 5 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.090 km NE of San Pedro de Atacama, Chile · 4138 days ago · 210 km deep · 85 km away
- 6.050 km E of Calama, Chile · 4129 days ago · 124 km deep · 39 km away · felt by 16
- 4.130 km E of Calama, Chile · 4129 days ago · 127 km deep · 45 km away
- 4.070 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 4129 days ago · 123 km deep · 22 km away
- 4.5116 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 4121 days ago · 131 km deep · 64 km away
- 3.9114 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 4120 days ago · 144 km deep · 57 km away
- 4.175 km NE of Calama, Chile · 4117 days ago · 129 km deep · 18 km away
- 5.1107 km NE of Calama, Chile · 4117 days ago · 122 km deep · 46 km away
- 4.196 km NNE of San Pedro de Atacama, Chile · 4111 days ago · 215 km deep · 72 km away
- 4.128 km SSW of Calama, Chile · 4107 days ago · 105 km deep · 90 km away
- 4.2130 km N of Calama, Chile · 4105 days ago · 121 km deep · 91 km away
- 4.273 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 4101 days ago · 120 km deep · 21 km away
- 4.479 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 4098 days ago · 113 km deep · 33 km away
- 4.394 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 4095 days ago · 126 km deep · 37 km away
Before
- 4.098 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 4153 days ago · 106 km deep · 48 km away
- 4.120 km SE of Calama, Chile · 4163 days ago · 101 km deep · 66 km away
- 4.281 km NE of Calama, Chile · 4167 days ago · 117 km deep · 21 km away
- 4.231 km ENE of Calama, Chile · 4168 days ago · 116 km deep · 34 km away
- 4.137 km NE of Calama, Chile · 4169 days ago · 129 km deep · 25 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us10002c5j (also filed as gcmt20150526103201, iscgem607265447). Read Tue, Sep 29, 2026, 2:40 PM UTC.