M3.9 earthquake 82 km NE of Iquique, Chile
A magnitude 3.9 earthquake struck 82 km NE of Iquique, Chile on Sun, Aug 14, 2022, 10:53 AM GMT-4 (14:53 UTC), 109 km (68 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M4.7 87 km E 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
- 3.9 (mb, body-wave), minor
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2022-08-14 14:53:03 UTC
- Depth
- 109.2 km (67.8 mi), intermediate-depth
- Epicenter
- 19.719° S, 69.558° W
- Region
- Chile
- Felt reports
- 4
- Tsunami flag
- No
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
Did you feel it?
4 people reported to the USGS what they felt; the strongest reported shaking was III, weak shaking.

How well it is located
Reviewed by a seismologist.
- Location uncertainty
- About 5.0 km horizontally, 6.3 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.26
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 101°
- Stations used
- 14
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 15 in the 60 days after this one and 7 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 3.325 km E of Iquique, Chile · 1510 days ago · 61 km deep · 63 km away · felt by 5
- 4.515 km NNW of Cami?a, Chile · 1505 days ago · 106 km deep · 58 km away
- 3.442 km SE of Iquique, Chile · 1496 days ago · 88 km deep · 89 km away · felt by 7
- 3.737 km NNE of Iquique, Chile · 1490 days ago · 54 km deep · 56 km away · felt by 3
- 3.120 km ENE of Iquique, Chile · 1481 days ago · 50 km deep · 63 km away · felt by 3
- 4.2Near the coast of Tarapaca, Chile · 1479 days ago · 51 km deep · 64 km away · felt by 8
- 4.6103 km E of Iquique, Chile · 1478 days ago · 96 km deep · 66 km away · felt by 19
- 4.5101 km E of Iquique, Chile · 1478 days ago · 101 km deep · 64 km away · felt by 2
- 4.2116 km E of Iquique, Chile · 1474 days ago · 110 km deep · 69 km away · felt by 1
- 3.923 km SSE of Cami?a, Chile · 1470 days ago · 102 km deep · 30 km away
- 4.480 km N of Iquique, Chile · 1468 days ago · 66 km deep · 57 km away · felt by 8
- 4.293 km SSE of Arica, Chile · 1468 days ago · 62 km deep · 67 km away · felt by 2
- 2.9Tarapaca, Chile · 1465 days ago · 51 km deep · 58 km away · felt by 2
- 4.183 km NE of Iquique, Chile · 1464 days ago · 97 km deep · 3 km away · felt by 1
- 4.787 km E of Iquique, Chile · 1461 days ago · 96 km deep · 70 km away · felt by 4
Before
- 4.9140 km NE of Iquique, Chile · 1520 days ago · 102 km deep · 58 km away · felt by 11
- 2.5Near the coast of Tarapaca, Chile · 1520 days ago · 38 km deep · 77 km away · felt by 3
- 4.577 km SSE of Arica, Chile · 1521 days ago · 66 km deep · 83 km away · felt by 2
- 4.2Tarapaca, Chile · 1525 days ago · 116 km deep · 73 km away
- 4.4134 km E of Iquique, Chile · 1532 days ago · 115 km deep · 84 km away · felt by 3
- 4.081 km NNE of Iquique, Chile · 1534 days ago · 66 km deep · 37 km away · felt by 2
- 4.5Tarapaca, Chile · 1538 days ago · 91 km deep · 28 km away · felt by 7
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us6000iatj. Read Sun, Oct 4, 2026, 4:26 PM UTC.