M4.8 earthquake 33 km WSW of Ollagüe, Chile
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake struck 33 km WSW of Ollagüe, Chile on Wed, Nov 6, 2024, 4:01 AM GMT-3 (07:01 UTC), 109 km (68 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M6.1 84 km NNW 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
- 4.8 (Mww, W-phase moment), light
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2024-11-06 07:01:19 UTC
- Depth
- 108.9 km (67.7 mi), intermediate-depth
- Epicenter
- 21.346° S, 68.548° W
- Region
- Chile
- Felt reports
- 3
- Tsunami flag
- No
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
Did you feel it?
3 people reported to the USGS what they felt; the strongest reported shaking was II, weak shaking.
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
- 4.8 Mww
- Nodal plane 1
- Strike 154°, dip 30°, rake -82°
- Nodal plane 2
- Strike 325°, dip 60°, rake -94°
How well it is located
Reviewed by a seismologist.
- Location uncertainty
- About 5.5 km horizontally, 5.8 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.07
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 35°
- Stations used
- 70
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.8 and up: 19 in the 60 days after this one and 10 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.475 km WSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 694 days ago · 111 km deep · 42 km away
- 4.334 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 690 days ago · 136 km deep · 15 km away
- 4.337 km WNW of Ollagüe, Chile · 690 days ago · 136 km deep · 26 km away
- 4.348 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 686 days ago · 128 km deep · 39 km away
- 4.348 km WSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 678 days ago · 122 km deep · 16 km away
- 4.346 km SW of Ollagüe, Chile · 678 days ago · 124 km deep · 25 km away
- 4.043 km ESE of Ollagüe, Chile · 676 days ago · 205 km deep · 72 km away
- 4.234 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 667 days ago · 126 km deep · 9 km away
- 3.942 km WSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 663 days ago · 128 km deep · 9 km away
- 4.492 km E of La Tirana, Chile · 662 days ago · 128 km deep · 99 km away
- 4.959 km NE of Calama, Chile · 661 days ago · 95 km deep · 84 km away · felt by 4
- 4.166 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 654 days ago · 118 km deep · 64 km away
- 4.369 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 651 days ago · 113 km deep · 43 km away
- 4.363 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 647 days ago · 108 km deep · 40 km away
- 4.737 km NE of Calama, Chile · 647 days ago · 116 km deep · 98 km away
- 6.184 km NNW of Calama, Chile · 641 days ago · 99 km deep · 71 km away · felt by 54
- 4.586 km NNW of Ollagüe, Chile · 640 days ago · 135 km deep · 93 km away
- 4.561 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 640 days ago · 128 km deep · 40 km away
- 4.163 km WNW of Ollagüe, Chile · 640 days ago · 111 km deep · 49 km away
Before
- 4.271 km WSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 702 days ago · 132 km deep · 38 km away
- 4.838 km E of Ollagüe, Chile · 703 days ago · 152 km deep · 70 km away
- 4.144 km WNW of Ollagüe, Chile · 703 days ago · 137 km deep · 34 km away
- 4.046 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 707 days ago · 150 km deep · 29 km away
- 4.665 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 708 days ago · 125 km deep · 68 km away
- 4.347 km WSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 710 days ago · 131 km deep · 16 km away
- 5.056 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 710 days ago · 119 km deep · 41 km away · felt by 1
- 4.464 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 712 days ago · 137 km deep · 41 km away
- 4.277 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 721 days ago · 115 km deep · 53 km away
- 4.651 km E of Ollagüe, Chile · 727 days ago · 161 km deep · 83 km away
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From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us7000nq7d. Read Mon, Oct 5, 2026, 9:38 AM UTC.