M4.4 earthquake 48 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake struck 48 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile on Sat, Mar 9, 2024, 5:57 AM GMT-3 (08:57 UTC), 125 km (78 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M5.0 81 km WSW 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 (mb, body-wave), light
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2024-03-09 08:57:17 UTC
- Depth
- 125.0 km (77.7 mi), intermediate-depth
- Epicenter
- 21.632° S, 68.422° 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 7.9 km horizontally, 7.7 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.12
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 72°
- 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: 17 in the 60 days after this one and 11 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.616 km E of Calama, Chile · 939 days ago · 127 km deep · 96 km away
- 4.340 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 925 days ago · 144 km deep · 57 km away
- 4.147 km SW of Ollagüe, Chile · 918 days ago · 136 km deep · 17 km away
- 4.575 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 918 days ago · 116 km deep · 82 km away
- 4.126 km E of Calama, Chile · 916 days ago · 113 km deep · 98 km away
- 4.258 km SW of Ollagüe, Chile · 916 days ago · 140 km deep · 17 km away
- 3.625 km NW of Ollagüe, Chile · 909 days ago · 145 km deep · 64 km away
- 4.275 km N of Calama, Chile · 906 days ago · 119 km deep · 56 km away
- 4.431 km SW of Ollagüe, Chile · 905 days ago · 131 km deep · 19 km away
- 4.185 km WNW of Ollagüe, Chile · 904 days ago · 116 km deep · 98 km away
- 4.350 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 903 days ago · 147 km deep · 2 km away
- 4.146 km S of Ollagüe, Chile · 897 days ago · 122 km deep · 11 km away
- 4.446 km NNW of San Pedro de Atacama, Chile · 890 days ago · 139 km deep · 97 km away
- 4.564 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 889 days ago · 109 km deep · 42 km away
- 5.081 km WSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 887 days ago · 102 km deep · 63 km away · felt by 7
- 4.579 km WNW of Ollagüe, Chile · 886 days ago · 99 km deep · 96 km away
- 4.367 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 882 days ago · 112 km deep · 73 km away
Before
- 4.581 km WNW of Ollagüe, Chile · 940 days ago · 119 km deep · 97 km away
- 4.250 km SW of Ollagüe, Chile · 941 days ago · 133 km deep · 15 km away
- 4.453 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 942 days ago · 115 km deep · 61 km away
- 4.570 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 944 days ago · 114 km deep · 78 km away
- 4.229 km NW of Ollagüe, Chile · 947 days ago · 146 km deep · 66 km away
- 4.347 km ENE of Calama, Chile · 948 days ago · 130 km deep · 75 km away
- 4.658 km NNW of Calama, Chile · 949 days ago · 86 km deep · 90 km away · felt by 2
- 4.275 km WNW of Ollagüe, Chile · 950 days ago · 116 km deep · 84 km away
- 4.843 km NE of Calama, Chile · 952 days ago · 110 km deep · 66 km away
- 4.439 km NE of Calama, Chile · 959 days ago · 115 km deep · 68 km away
- 4.456 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 962 days ago · 122 km deep · 10 km away
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From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us7000m4db. Read Sun, Oct 4, 2026, 1:52 PM UTC.