M4.0 earthquake 46 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake struck 46 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile on Mon, Oct 28, 2024, 4:45 AM GMT-3 (07:45 UTC), 150 km (93 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M4.9 59 km NE of Calama, 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
- 2024-10-28 07:45:49 UTC
- Depth
- 149.8 km (93.1 mi), intermediate-depth
- Epicenter
- 21.594° S, 68.474° 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 6.6 km horizontally, 7.6 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.23
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 92°
- 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: 19 in the 60 days after this one and 10 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.144 km WNW of Ollagüe, Chile · 701 days ago · 137 km deep · 63 km away
- 4.838 km E of Ollagüe, Chile · 701 days ago · 152 km deep · 74 km away
- 4.271 km WSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 700 days ago · 132 km deep · 51 km away
- 4.833 km WSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 696 days ago · 109 km deep · 29 km away · felt by 3
- 4.475 km WSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 692 days ago · 111 km deep · 49 km away
- 4.334 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 688 days ago · 136 km deep · 44 km away
- 4.337 km WNW of Ollagüe, Chile · 688 days ago · 136 km deep · 54 km away
- 4.348 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 684 days ago · 128 km deep · 13 km away
- 4.381 km NNE of San Pedro de Atacama, Chile · 684 days ago · 171 km deep · 91 km away
- 4.849 km E of Calama, Chile · 678 days ago · 115 km deep · 91 km away
- 4.348 km WSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 676 days ago · 122 km deep · 36 km away
- 4.346 km SW of Ollagüe, Chile · 676 days ago · 124 km deep · 4 km away
- 4.043 km ESE of Ollagüe, Chile · 674 days ago · 205 km deep · 71 km away
- 4.234 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 665 days ago · 126 km deep · 37 km away
- 3.942 km WSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 661 days ago · 128 km deep · 32 km away
- 4.959 km NE of Calama, Chile · 658 days ago · 95 km deep · 56 km away · felt by 4
- 4.225 km E of Calama, Chile · 653 days ago · 111 km deep · 97 km away
- 4.166 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 651 days ago · 118 km deep · 40 km away
- 4.369 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 649 days ago · 113 km deep · 66 km away
Before
- 4.665 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 705 days ago · 125 km deep · 42 km away
- 4.347 km WSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 708 days ago · 131 km deep · 38 km away
- 5.056 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 708 days ago · 119 km deep · 12 km away · felt by 1
- 4.464 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 710 days ago · 137 km deep · 18 km away
- 4.277 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 718 days ago · 115 km deep · 75 km away
- 4.651 km E of Ollagüe, Chile · 725 days ago · 161 km deep · 86 km away
- 4.071 km NNE of San Pedro de Atacama, Chile · 726 days ago · 182 km deep · 93 km away
- 4.251 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 727 days ago · 144 km deep · 6 km away
- 4.251 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 728 days ago · 146 km deep · 5 km away
- 4.359 km WSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 729 days ago · 109 km deep · 31 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us7000nnld. Read Sat, Oct 3, 2026, 7:36 AM UTC.