M4.5 earthquake 88 km NE of Calama, Chile
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake struck 88 km NE of Calama, Chile on Mon, Nov 28, 2022, 8:11 PM GMT-3 (23:11 UTC), 124 km (77 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M4.9 38 km ENE 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
- 4.5 (Mwr, regional moment), light
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2022-11-28 23:11:43 UTC
- Depth
- 124.4 km (77.3 mi), intermediate-depth
- Epicenter
- 21.815° S, 68.419° 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
- 4.5 Mwr
- Nodal plane 1
- Strike 320°, dip 63°, rake -88°
- Nodal plane 2
- Strike 135°, dip 27°, rake -94°
How well it is located
Reviewed by a seismologist.
- Location uncertainty
- About 5.8 km horizontally, 5.1 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.09
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 45°
- Stations used
- 53
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 20 in the 60 days after this one and 7 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.5103 km NE of Calama, Chile · 1404 days ago · 145 km deep · 15 km away
- 4.4155 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 1402 days ago · 127 km deep · 70 km away
- 4.4Chile-Bolivia border region · 1402 days ago · 150 km deep · 42 km away
- 4.0144 km N of Calama, Chile · 1392 days ago · 114 km deep · 99 km away
- 4.2140 km N of Calama, Chile · 1390 days ago · 114 km deep · 72 km away
- 4.2157 km N of Calama, Chile · 1389 days ago · 134 km deep · 89 km away
- 4.281 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 1387 days ago · 130 km deep · 15 km away
- 4.938 km ENE of Calama, Chile · 1384 days ago · 113 km deep · 56 km away · felt by 1
- 4.2137 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 1379 days ago · 122 km deep · 60 km away
- 4.2134 km N of Calama, Chile · 1378 days ago · 120 km deep · 73 km away
- 4.1136 km N of Calama, Chile · 1372 days ago · 90 km deep · 87 km away
- 4.3158 km N of Calama, Chile · 1364 days ago · 128 km deep · 88 km away
- 4.584 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 1363 days ago · 150 km deep · 15 km away
- 4.2112 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 1362 days ago · 151 km deep · 34 km away
- 4.315 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 1361 days ago · 106 km deep · 74 km away
- 4.9Chile-Bolivia border region · 1357 days ago · 114 km deep · 9 km away · felt by 2
- 4.1155 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 1352 days ago · 149 km deep · 80 km away
- 4.4102 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 1352 days ago · 138 km deep · 19 km away
- 4.6140 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 1349 days ago · 116 km deep · 57 km away
- 4.5101 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 1349 days ago · 123 km deep · 22 km away
Before
- 4.6159 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 1406 days ago · 124 km deep · 75 km away · felt by 1
- 4.619 km W of Calama, Chile · 1408 days ago · 119 km deep · 100 km away · felt by 1
- 4.1Chile-Bolivia border region · 1414 days ago · 120 km deep · 69 km away
- 4.257 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 1422 days ago · 129 km deep · 38 km away
- 4.5147 km N of Calama, Chile · 1428 days ago · 112 km deep · 93 km away
- 4.463 km SSW of Ollag?e, Chile · 1430 days ago · 106 km deep · 7 km away
- 5.3Antofagasta, Chile · 1432 days ago · 113 km deep · 73 km away · felt by 9
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us7000it4h. Read Sun, Oct 4, 2026, 7:36 AM UTC.