M4.6 earthquake 13 km NNE of Camiña, Chile
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake struck 13 km NNE of Camiña, Chile on Mon, Mar 4, 2024, 7:01 PM GMT-3 (22:01 UTC), 108 km (67 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M5.3 84 km N of Camiña, Chile. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 4.6 (Mwr, regional moment), light
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2024-03-04 22:01:31 UTC
- Depth
- 107.9 km (67.0 mi), intermediate-depth
- Epicenter
- 19.194° S, 69.388° W
- Region
- Chile
- Felt reports
- 3
- Tsunami flag
- No
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
Did you feel it?
3 people reported to the USGS what they felt; the strongest reported shaking was II, weak shaking.
Fault motion and ground failure
How the rock slipped, from the moment tensor, and the USGS estimate of landslides and liquefaction.
- Faulting
- Oblique normal
- Moment magnitude
- 4.6 Mwr
- Nodal plane 1
- Strike 163°, dip 58°, rake -35°
- Nodal plane 2
- Strike 273°, dip 61°, rake -143°
How well it is located
Reviewed by a seismologist.
- Location uncertainty
- About 5.6 km horizontally, 4.1 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.07
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 98°
- Stations used
- 119
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.6 and up: 4 in the 60 days after this one and 3 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 5.384 km N of Camiña, Chile · 936 days ago · 109 km deep · 71 km away · felt by 5
- 5.033 km SSE of Cuya, Chile · 924 days ago · 79 km deep · 80 km away · felt by 14
- 4.032 km WNW of Camiña, Chile · 898 days ago · 112 km deep · 32 km away
- 4.24 km NNE of Camiña, Chile · 884 days ago · 127 km deep · 9 km away
Before
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us6000mgrm. Read Mon, Oct 5, 2026, 3:37 AM UTC.