M4.2 earthquake 58 km SW of Ollagüe, Chile
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake struck 58 km SW of Ollagüe, Chile on Mon, Apr 1, 2024, 9:15 PM GMT-3 (00:15 UTC), 140 km (87 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M5.2 19 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
- 4.2 (mb, body-wave), light
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2024-04-02 00:15:41 UTC
- Depth
- 139.5 km (86.7 mi), intermediate-depth
- Epicenter
- 21.645° S, 68.589° 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 5.8 km horizontally, 8.2 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.19
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 65°
- Stations used
- 17
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 18 in the 60 days after this one and 13 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 3.625 km NW of Ollagüe, Chile · 909 days ago · 145 km deep · 68 km away
- 4.275 km N of Calama, Chile · 906 days ago · 119 km deep · 39 km away
- 4.431 km SW of Ollagüe, Chile · 905 days ago · 131 km deep · 27 km away
- 4.185 km WNW of Ollagüe, Chile · 904 days ago · 116 km deep · 89 km away
- 4.350 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 903 days ago · 147 km deep · 15 km away
- 4.146 km S of Ollagüe, Chile · 897 days ago · 122 km deep · 28 km away
- 4.446 km NNW of San Pedro de Atacama, Chile · 890 days ago · 139 km deep · 99 km away
- 4.564 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 889 days ago · 109 km deep · 32 km away
- 5.081 km WSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 886 days ago · 102 km deep · 48 km away · felt by 7
- 4.579 km WNW of Ollagüe, Chile · 886 days ago · 99 km deep · 89 km away
- 4.367 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 882 days ago · 112 km deep · 64 km away
- 5.078 km WNW of Ollagüe, Chile · 881 days ago · 106 km deep · 95 km away · felt by 5
- 5.219 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 879 days ago · 107 km deep · 39 km away
- 4.150 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 872 days ago · 129 km deep · 49 km away
- 4.247 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 867 days ago · 110 km deep · 49 km away
- 5.072 km NE of Calama, Chile · 866 days ago · 106 km deep · 35 km away
- 4.475 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 862 days ago · 125 km deep · 27 km away
- 4.576 km SW of Ollagüe, Chile · 858 days ago · 125 km deep · 19 km away
Before
- 4.126 km E of Calama, Chile · 916 days ago · 113 km deep · 93 km away
- 4.575 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 918 days ago · 116 km deep · 73 km away
- 4.147 km SW of Ollagüe, Chile · 918 days ago · 136 km deep · 11 km away
- 4.340 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 924 days ago · 144 km deep · 54 km away
- 4.587 km SE of La Tirana, Chile · 927 days ago · 117 km deep · 99 km away
- 4.584 km SE of La Tirana, Chile · 938 days ago · 111 km deep · 98 km away · felt by 1
- 4.616 km E of Calama, Chile · 939 days ago · 127 km deep · 90 km away
- 4.448 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 939 days ago · 125 km deep · 17 km away
- 4.581 km WNW of Ollagüe, Chile · 940 days ago · 119 km deep · 90 km away
- 4.250 km SW of Ollagüe, Chile · 941 days ago · 133 km deep · 8 km away
- 4.453 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 942 days ago · 115 km deep · 54 km away
- 4.027 km ESE of Calama, Chile · 942 days ago · 122 km deep · 98 km away
- 4.570 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 944 days ago · 114 km deep · 69 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us7000m99t. Read Sun, Oct 4, 2026, 9:20 AM UTC.