M4.3 earthquake 75 km NNE of Calama, Chile
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake struck 75 km NNE of Calama, Chile on Tue, Oct 17, 2023, 2:12 AM GMT-3 (05:12 UTC), 136 km (85 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M5.2 78 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
- 2023-10-17 05:12:23 UTC
- Depth
- 136.1 km (84.5 mi), intermediate-depth
- Epicenter
- 21.834° S, 68.628° 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.
How well it is located
Reviewed by a seismologist.
- Location uncertainty
- About 4.7 km horizontally, 6.6 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.20
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 55°
- Stations used
- 22
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 8 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.441 km E of Calama, Chile · 1079 days ago · 133 km deep · 74 km away
- 4.476 km SW of Ollagüe, Chile · 1073 days ago · 134 km deep · 6 km away
- 3.944 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 1072 days ago · 120 km deep · 71 km away
- 4.172 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 1071 days ago · 109 km deep · 83 km away
- 4.672 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 1062 days ago · 112 km deep · 87 km away · felt by 1
- 4.4Antofagasta, Chile · 1061 days ago · 103 km deep · 30 km away
- 4.468 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 1060 days ago · 141 km deep · 11 km away
- 4.759 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 1057 days ago · 114 km deep · 16 km away
- 4.162 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 1054 days ago · 132 km deep · 13 km away
- 4.759 km SSW of Ollag?e, Chile · 1053 days ago · 113 km deep · 28 km away · felt by 1
- 4.545 km WNW of Ollagüe, Chile · 1053 days ago · 116 km deep · 77 km away
- 4.526 km NW of Ollagüe, Chile · 1050 days ago · 135 km deep · 86 km away
- 5.278 km NE of Calama, Chile · 1046 days ago · 105 km deep · 23 km away · felt by 4
- 4.153 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 1044 days ago · 127 km deep · 64 km away
- 4.565 km WSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 1043 days ago · 96 km deep · 49 km away · felt by 3
- 4.281 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 1042 days ago · 121 km deep · 69 km away
- 4.556 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 1039 days ago · 116 km deep · 67 km away · felt by 1
- 4.747 km ESE of Ollagüe, Chile · 1039 days ago · 152 km deep · 93 km away
- 4.278 km N of Calama, Chile · 1036 days ago · 103 km deep · 20 km away
Before
- 4.164 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 1091 days ago · 99 km deep · 12 km away
- 4.454 km SW of Ollagüe, Chile · 1093 days ago · 139 km deep · 25 km away
- 4.574 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 1098 days ago · 122 km deep · 16 km away
- 4.230 km WSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 1101 days ago · 107 km deep · 61 km away
- 4.359 km WNW of Ollagüe, Chile · 1101 days ago · 105 km deep · 88 km away · felt by 1
- 4.354 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 1107 days ago · 126 km deep · 78 km away
- 4.4Antofagasta, Chile · 1108 days ago · 122 km deep · 48 km away
- 4.253 km WNW of Ollagüe, Chile · 1108 days ago · 111 km deep · 80 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us6000lg2s. Read Sun, Oct 4, 2026, 8:46 AM UTC.