M4.8 earthquake 142 km ESE of Iquique, Chile
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake struck 142 km ESE of Iquique, Chile on Mon, Feb 6, 2017, 5:03 AM GMT-3 (08:03 UTC), 95 km (59 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M5.1 108 km NNE 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
- 4.8 (mwr), light
- Local time
- UTC
- 2017-02-06 08:03:07 UTC
- Depth
- 94.7 km (58.8 mi), intermediate-depth
- Epicenter
- 20.904° S, 68.995° 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
- Oblique normal
- Moment magnitude
- 4.8 Mwr
- Nodal plane 1
- Strike 111°, dip 12°, rake -143°
- Nodal plane 2
- Strike 344°, dip 83°, rake -80°
How well it is located
Reviewed by a seismologist.
- Location uncertainty
- About 2.2 km horizontally, 4.8 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.05
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 30°
- Stations used
- 249
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.8 and up: 10 in the 60 days after this one and 9 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.1117 km E of Iquique, Chile · 3494 days ago · 126 km deep · 64 km away
- 4.5122 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 3485 days ago · 115 km deep · 96 km away
- 4.5157 km E of Iquique, Chile · 3483 days ago · 116 km deep · 75 km away · felt by 2
- 5.1108 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 3480 days ago · 125 km deep · 93 km away · felt by 1
- 4.0131 km ESE of Iquique, Chile · 3478 days ago · 102 km deep · 12 km away
- 4.3119 km ESE of Iquique, Chile · 3474 days ago · 120 km deep · 34 km away
- 3.9131 km ESE of Iquique, Chile · 3474 days ago · 106 km deep · 43 km away
- 4.4106 km ESE of Iquique, Chile · 3471 days ago · 110 km deep · 56 km away
- 4.3137 km N of Calama, Chile · 3467 days ago · 115 km deep · 37 km away
- 4.1104 km ESE of Iquique, Chile · 3465 days ago · 98 km deep · 52 km away
Before
- 4.3138 km N of Calama, Chile · 3524 days ago · 131 km deep · 34 km away
- 4.1125 km E of Iquique, Chile · 3532 days ago · 120 km deep · 67 km away
- 4.2112 km E of Iquique, Chile · 3534 days ago · 110 km deep · 65 km away
- 4.0107 km N of Calama, Chile · 3534 days ago · 118 km deep · 65 km away
- 4.3134 km N of Calama, Chile · 3535 days ago · 127 km deep · 45 km away
- 4.4127 km E of Iquique, Chile · 3537 days ago · 121 km deep · 90 km away
- 3.988 km E of Iquique, Chile · 3545 days ago · 107 km deep · 89 km away
- 4.0144 km E of Iquique, Chile · 3546 days ago · 112 km deep · 53 km away
- 4.1134 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 3552 days ago · 126 km deep · 54 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us20008hw5. Read Wed, Sep 30, 2026, 2:00 PM UTC.