M4.4 earthquake 39 km NE of Calama, Chile
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake struck 39 km NE of Calama, Chile on Sun, Feb 18, 2024, 2:50 PM GMT-3 (17:50 UTC), 115 km (71 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M4.8 43 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
- 4.4 (Mwr, regional moment), light
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2024-02-18 17:50:51 UTC
- Depth
- 114.6 km (71.2 mi), intermediate-depth
- Epicenter
- 22.207° S, 68.653° 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
- 4.4 Mwr
- Nodal plane 1
- Strike 316°, dip 63°, rake -101°
- Nodal plane 2
- Strike 159°, dip 29°, rake -69°
How well it is located
Reviewed by a seismologist.
- Location uncertainty
- About 4.2 km horizontally, 5.2 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.07
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 47°
- Stations used
- 41
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 16 in the 60 days after this one and 9 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.843 km NE of Calama, Chile · 952 days ago · 110 km deep · 5 km away
- 4.658 km NNW of Calama, Chile · 950 days ago · 86 km deep · 61 km away · felt by 2
- 4.347 km ENE of Calama, Chile · 949 days ago · 130 km deep · 19 km away
- 4.444 km NNE of San Pedro de Atacama, Chile · 946 days ago · 158 km deep · 67 km away
- 4.18 km N of San Pedro de Atacama, Chile · 944 days ago · 135 km deep · 83 km away
- 4.027 km ESE of Calama, Chile · 943 days ago · 122 km deep · 35 km away
- 4.250 km SW of Ollagüe, Chile · 942 days ago · 133 km deep · 71 km away
- 4.448 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 940 days ago · 125 km deep · 68 km away
- 4.616 km E of Calama, Chile · 939 days ago · 127 km deep · 28 km away
- 4.147 km SW of Ollagüe, Chile · 919 days ago · 136 km deep · 74 km away
- 4.126 km E of Calama, Chile · 917 days ago · 113 km deep · 30 km away
- 4.258 km SW of Ollagüe, Chile · 916 days ago · 140 km deep · 63 km away
- 4.212 km SSE of Calama, Chile · 913 days ago · 116 km deep · 46 km away
- 4.275 km N of Calama, Chile · 907 days ago · 119 km deep · 56 km away
- 4.431 km SW of Ollagüe, Chile · 906 days ago · 131 km deep · 86 km away
- 4.350 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 904 days ago · 147 km deep · 67 km away
Before
- 4.456 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 963 days ago · 122 km deep · 60 km away
- 4.241 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 974 days ago · 150 km deep · 76 km away
- 4.111 km ENE of San Pedro de Atacama, Chile · 980 days ago · 148 km deep · 94 km away
- 4.130 km SW of Calama, Chile · 980 days ago · 119 km deep · 70 km away
- 4.245 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 981 days ago · 118 km deep · 16 km away
- 4.474 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 982 days ago · 125 km deep · 46 km away
- 5.067 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 983 days ago · 121 km deep · 50 km away · felt by 3
- 4.333 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 984 days ago · 116 km deep · 11 km away
- 5.341 km NE of Calama, Chile · 985 days ago · 113 km deep · 2 km away · felt by 1
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us7000m01n. Read Mon, Oct 5, 2026, 1:35 AM UTC.