M4.0 earthquake 47 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake struck 47 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile on Thu, Sep 12, 2024, 2:40 AM GMT-3 (05:40 UTC), 125 km (77 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
- 4.0 (mb, body-wave), light
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2024-09-12 05:40:20 UTC
- Depth
- 124.6 km (77.4 mi), intermediate-depth
- Epicenter
- 21.602° S, 68.469° 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 9.1 km horizontally, 9.6 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.15
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 68°
- Stations used
- 16
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 22 in the 60 days after this one and 7 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.159 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 748 days ago · 136 km deep · 47 km away
- 4.334 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 747 days ago · 140 km deep · 47 km away
- 4.140 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 746 days ago · 150 km deep · 7 km away
- 4.459 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 744 days ago · 97 km deep · 50 km away
- 4.223 km NW of Ollagüe, Chile · 741 days ago · 151 km deep · 58 km away
- 4.376 km S of Ollagüe, Chile · 737 days ago · 126 km deep · 37 km away
- 4.359 km WSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 730 days ago · 109 km deep · 32 km away
- 4.251 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 729 days ago · 146 km deep · 5 km away
- 4.251 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 728 days ago · 144 km deep · 6 km away
- 4.071 km NNE of San Pedro de Atacama, Chile · 727 days ago · 182 km deep · 92 km away
- 4.651 km E of Ollagüe, Chile · 726 days ago · 161 km deep · 86 km away
- 4.277 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 719 days ago · 115 km deep · 76 km away
- 4.464 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 711 days ago · 137 km deep · 18 km away
- 5.056 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 709 days ago · 119 km deep · 11 km away · felt by 1
- 4.347 km WSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 709 days ago · 131 km deep · 39 km away
- 4.665 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 706 days ago · 125 km deep · 41 km away
- 4.046 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 706 days ago · 150 km deep · 1 km away
- 4.144 km WNW of Ollagüe, Chile · 702 days ago · 137 km deep · 64 km away
- 4.838 km E of Ollagüe, Chile · 702 days ago · 152 km deep · 74 km away
- 4.271 km WSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 701 days ago · 132 km deep · 51 km away
- 4.833 km WSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 697 days ago · 109 km deep · 30 km away · felt by 3
- 4.475 km WSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 693 days ago · 111 km deep · 50 km away
Before
- 4.155 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 755 days ago · 109 km deep · 49 km away
- 4.981 km WNW of Ollagüe, Chile · 756 days ago · 112 km deep · 90 km away · felt by 6
- 4.453 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 758 days ago · 120 km deep · 49 km away
- 4.179 km WNW of Ollagüe, Chile · 760 days ago · 110 km deep · 81 km away
- 4.137 km NE of Calama, Chile · 762 days ago · 122 km deep · 70 km away
- 4.219 km WSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 779 days ago · 129 km deep · 37 km away
- 4.559 km SW of Ollagüe, Chile · 782 days ago · 125 km deep · 27 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us7000nd80. Read Sun, Oct 4, 2026, 7:39 AM UTC.