M4.3 earthquake 113 km ESE of Iquique, Chile
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake struck 113 km ESE of Iquique, Chile on Wed, Apr 26, 2017, 5:09 AM GMT-3 (08:09 UTC), 98 km (61 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M5.7 164 km ESE 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, regional moment), light
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2017-04-26 08:09:52 UTC
- Depth
- 98.4 km (61.1 mi), intermediate-depth
- Epicenter
- 20.456° S, 69.090° W
- Region
- Chile
- Tsunami flag
- No
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
Did you feel it?
No one has reported feeling this quake to the USGS.
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 350°, dip 58°, rake -102°
- Nodal plane 2
- Strike 192°, dip 34°, rake -72°
How well it is located
Reviewed by a seismologist.
- Location uncertainty
- About 5.5 km horizontally, 5.0 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.06
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 44°
- Stations used
- 54
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 19 in the 60 days after this one and 5 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 5.4101 km NE of Iquique, Chile · 3445 days ago · 105 km deep · 88 km away · felt by 6
- 4.1137 km SE of Iquique, Chile · 3445 days ago · 103 km deep · 55 km away
- 4.2151 km N of Calama, Chile · 3441 days ago · 133 km deep · 85 km away
- 4.0143 km N of Calama, Chile · 3436 days ago · 119 km deep · 79 km away
- 4.3109 km E of Iquique, Chile · 3435 days ago · 98 km deep · 46 km away
- 4.1110 km E of Iquique, Chile · 3435 days ago · 95 km deep · 41 km away
- 4.0118 km ENE of Iquique, Chile · 3433 days ago · 106 km deep · 68 km away
- 5.7164 km ESE of Iquique, Chile · 3427 days ago · 116 km deep · 57 km away · felt by 7
- 4.4125 km E of Iquique, Chile · 3420 days ago · 111 km deep · 15 km away
- 4.9143 km N of Calama, Chile · 3413 days ago · 138 km deep · 91 km away
- 4.3153 km SE of Iquique, Chile · 3401 days ago · 119 km deep · 67 km away
- 4.1118 km SE of Iquique, Chile · 3400 days ago · 102 km deep · 44 km away
- 4.1Chile-Bolivia border region · 3399 days ago · 115 km deep · 76 km away
- 4.2137 km N of Calama, Chile · 3396 days ago · 137 km deep · 94 km away
- 4.2144 km N of Calama, Chile · 3395 days ago · 123 km deep · 78 km away
- 4.0137 km N of Calama, Chile · 3392 days ago · 121 km deep · 93 km away
- 4.355 km SSE of Iquique, Chile · 3390 days ago · 64 km deep · 85 km away · felt by 1
- 4.3145 km N of Calama, Chile · 3389 days ago · 105 km deep · 78 km away
- 4.0134 km N of Calama, Chile · 3386 days ago · 125 km deep · 93 km away
Before
- 4.4106 km ENE of Iquique, Chile · 3457 days ago · 103 km deep · 68 km away
- 4.1104 km ESE of Iquique, Chile · 3466 days ago · 98 km deep · 11 km away
- 4.3137 km N of Calama, Chile · 3468 days ago · 115 km deep · 87 km away
- 4.4106 km ESE of Iquique, Chile · 3472 days ago · 110 km deep · 8 km away
- 3.9131 km ESE of Iquique, Chile · 3475 days ago · 106 km deep · 18 km away
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Sources
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