M4.6 earthquake 45 km SW of Ollagüe, Chile
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake struck 45 km SW of Ollagüe, Chile on Thu, Jun 27, 2024, 7:42 AM GMT-4 (11:42 UTC), 100 km (62 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M4.9 8 km SW of Ollagüe, 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
- 2024-06-27 11:42:45 UTC
- Depth
- 100.4 km (62.4 mi), intermediate-depth
- Epicenter
- 21.487° S, 68.591° 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
- Strike-slip
- Moment magnitude
- 4.6 Mwr
- Nodal plane 1
- Strike 232°, dip 29°, rake -7°
- Nodal plane 2
- Strike 328°, dip 87°, rake -119°
How well it is located
Reviewed by a seismologist.
- Location uncertainty
- About 5.8 km horizontally, 4.9 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.07
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 43°
- Stations used
- 71
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.6 and up: 18 in the 60 days after this one and 8 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.421 km SSE of Ollagüe, Chile · 828 days ago · 175 km deep · 46 km away
- 4.451 km ENE of Ollagüe, Chile · 826 days ago · 173 km deep · 95 km away
- 4.153 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 825 days ago · 114 km deep · 34 km away
- 4.255 km SW of Ollagüe, Chile · 825 days ago · 146 km deep · 13 km away
- 4.175 km WNW of Ollagüe, Chile · 824 days ago · 99 km deep · 70 km away
- 4.189 km WNW of Ollagüe, Chile · 824 days ago · 101 km deep · 81 km away
- 4.148 km WNW of Ollagüe, Chile · 821 days ago · 135 km deep · 49 km away
- 4.429 km WNW of Ollagüe, Chile · 821 days ago · 131 km deep · 39 km away
- 4.365 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 819 days ago · 127 km deep · 47 km away
- 4.065 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 816 days ago · 138 km deep · 49 km away
- 4.98 km SW of Ollagüe, Chile · 812 days ago · 113 km deep · 37 km away · felt by 2
- 4.250 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 812 days ago · 117 km deep · 40 km away · felt by 1
- 4.915 km WSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 812 days ago · 131 km deep · 31 km away · felt by 1
- 4.353 km NE of Calama, Chile · 802 days ago · 130 km deep · 65 km away
- 4.272 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 797 days ago · 104 km deep · 43 km away
- 4.659 km NE of Calama, Chile · 792 days ago · 121 km deep · 67 km away
- 4.559 km SW of Ollagüe, Chile · 783 days ago · 125 km deep · 15 km away
- 4.219 km WSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 780 days ago · 129 km deep · 29 km away
Before
- 4.229 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 834 days ago · 124 km deep · 35 km away
- 4.551 km E of Ollagüe, Chile · 835 days ago · 167 km deep · 89 km away
- 4.151 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 840 days ago · 132 km deep · 23 km away
- 4.568 km S of Ollagüe, Chile · 842 days ago · 109 km deep · 51 km away
- 4.461 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 848 days ago · 123 km deep · 33 km away
- 4.216 km N of Calama, Chile · 855 days ago · 122 km deep · 97 km away
- 5.145 km WSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 856 days ago · 98 km deep · 17 km away · felt by 9
- 4.576 km SW of Ollagüe, Chile · 859 days ago · 125 km deep · 35 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us6000n8lr. Read Mon, Oct 5, 2026, 7:01 AM UTC.