M4.4 earthquake 59 km W of Ollagüe, Chile
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake struck 59 km W of Ollagüe, Chile on Thu, Sep 19, 2024, 11:10 PM GMT-3 (02:10 UTC), 97 km (60 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M5.0 56 km SSW 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
- 4.4 (Mwr, regional moment), light
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2024-09-20 02:10:17 UTC
- Depth
- 96.8 km (60.1 mi), intermediate-depth
- Epicenter
- 21.294° S, 68.819° 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 136°, dip 25°, rake -100°
- Nodal plane 2
- Strike 327°, dip 66°, rake -85°
How well it is located
Reviewed by a seismologist.
- Location uncertainty
- About 6.3 km horizontally, 5.1 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.08
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 61°
- Stations used
- 58
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 20 in the 60 days after this one and 9 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.223 km NW of Ollagüe, Chile · 741 days ago · 151 km deep · 48 km away
- 4.376 km S of Ollagüe, Chile · 737 days ago · 126 km deep · 86 km away
- 4.359 km WSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 730 days ago · 109 km deep · 22 km away
- 4.251 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 728 days ago · 146 km deep · 53 km away
- 4.251 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 728 days ago · 144 km deep · 47 km away
- 4.277 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 719 days ago · 115 km deep · 27 km away
- 4.464 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 711 days ago · 137 km deep · 52 km away
- 5.056 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 709 days ago · 119 km deep · 59 km away · felt by 1
- 4.347 km WSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 708 days ago · 131 km deep · 13 km away
- 4.665 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 706 days ago · 125 km deep · 77 km away
- 4.046 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 706 days ago · 150 km deep · 49 km away
- 4.048 km SE of La Tirana, Chile · 705 days ago · 87 km deep · 90 km away · felt by 1
- 4.144 km WNW of Ollagüe, Chile · 702 days ago · 137 km deep · 33 km away
- 4.838 km E of Ollagüe, Chile · 702 days ago · 152 km deep · 97 km away
- 4.271 km WSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 700 days ago · 132 km deep · 15 km away
- 4.833 km WSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 697 days ago · 109 km deep · 29 km away · felt by 3
- 4.475 km WSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 692 days ago · 111 km deep · 22 km away
- 4.334 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 689 days ago · 136 km deep · 26 km away
- 4.337 km WNW of Ollagüe, Chile · 688 days ago · 136 km deep · 30 km away
- 4.348 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 685 days ago · 128 km deep · 62 km away
Before
- 4.140 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 745 days ago · 150 km deep · 51 km away
- 4.334 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 747 days ago · 140 km deep · 27 km away
- 4.159 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 748 days ago · 136 km deep · 73 km away
- 4.047 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 752 days ago · 125 km deep · 50 km away
- 4.155 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 754 days ago · 109 km deep · 4 km away
- 4.981 km WNW of Ollagüe, Chile · 756 days ago · 112 km deep · 42 km away · felt by 6
- 4.453 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 758 days ago · 120 km deep · 7 km away
- 4.179 km WNW of Ollagüe, Chile · 759 days ago · 110 km deep · 32 km away
- 4.476 km SE of La Tirana, Chile · 767 days ago · 113 km deep · 61 km away · felt by 1
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From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us6000nt79. Read Sat, Oct 3, 2026, 11:33 PM UTC.