M4.3 earthquake 91 km NNE of Calama, Chile
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake struck 91 km NNE of Calama, Chile on Wed, Jul 14, 2021, 6:16 PM GMT-4 (22:16 UTC), 129 km (80 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M5.2 87 km NE 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
- 4.3 (mb, body-wave), light
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2021-07-14 22:16:40 UTC
- Depth
- 128.8 km (80.0 mi), intermediate-depth
- Epicenter
- 21.712° S, 68.529° W
- Region
- Chile
- Felt reports
- 1
- Tsunami flag
- No
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
Did you feel it?
1 person reported to the USGS what they felt; the strongest reported shaking was I, not felt shaking.
How well it is located
Reviewed by a seismologist.
- Location uncertainty
- About 5.9 km horizontally, 3.7 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.13
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 68°
- Stations used
- 36
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 11 in the 60 days after this one and 9 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.690 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 1905 days ago · 147 km deep · 3 km away
- 4.986 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 1901 days ago · 104 km deep · 13 km away · felt by 3
- 4.475 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 1900 days ago · 139 km deep · 17 km away · felt by 1
- 4.3141 km N of Calama, Chile · 1886 days ago · 134 km deep · 65 km away
- 5.287 km NE of Calama, Chile · 1884 days ago · 137 km deep · 21 km away · felt by 8
- 4.1158 km ESE of Iquique, Chile · 1879 days ago · 108 km deep · 96 km away
- 4.5128 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 1876 days ago · 105 km deep · 46 km away · felt by 2
- 4.3124 km N of Calama, Chile · 1875 days ago · 124 km deep · 53 km away
- 4.5149 km SW of Uyuni, Bolivia · 1865 days ago · 206 km deep · 76 km away
- 4.6139 km NNE of San Pedro de Atacama, Chile · 1862 days ago · 216 km deep · 87 km away
- 4.1107 km NE of Calama, Chile · 1852 days ago · 137 km deep · 22 km away
Before
- 4.461 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 1914 days ago · 125 km deep · 30 km away
- 4.7147 km N of Calama, Chile · 1915 days ago · 118 km deep · 66 km away · felt by 1
- 4.0119 km N of Calama, Chile · 1920 days ago · 126 km deep · 42 km away
- 4.0150 km ESE of Iquique, Chile · 1920 days ago · 107 km deep · 97 km away
- 4.0138 km N of Calama, Chile · 1922 days ago · 117 km deep · 57 km away
- 4.3134 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 1925 days ago · 110 km deep · 43 km away
- 3.924 km E of Calama, Chile · 1926 days ago · 123 km deep · 81 km away
- 4.398 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 1926 days ago · 111 km deep · 8 km away
- 4.2Chile-Bolivia border region · 1932 days ago · 135 km deep · 22 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us7000em0s. Read Sun, Oct 4, 2026, 12:16 PM UTC.