M4.6 earthquake 59 km NNE of Calama, Chile
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake struck 59 km NNE of Calama, Chile on Tue, Aug 5, 2025, 12:59 AM GMT-4 (04:59 UTC), 104 km (65 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M4.7 66 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
- 4.6 (Mwr, regional moment), light
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2025-08-05 04:59:07 UTC
- Depth
- 104.4 km (64.8 mi), intermediate-depth
- Epicenter
- 21.987° S, 68.645° 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.
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
- 4.6 Mwr
- Nodal plane 1
- Strike 342°, dip 78°, rake -75°
- Nodal plane 2
- Strike 112°, dip 19°, rake -139°
How well it is located
Reviewed by a seismologist.
- Location uncertainty
- About 5.6 km horizontally, 5.0 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.08
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 63°
- Stations used
- 49
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.6 and up: 20 in the 60 days after this one and 10 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.343 km ENE of Calama, Chile · 422 days ago · 142 km deep · 29 km away
- 4.221 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 421 days ago · 136 km deep · 88 km away
- 4.766 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 416 days ago · 115 km deep · 27 km away
- 4.239 km S of Ollagüe, Chile · 407 days ago · 131 km deep · 61 km away · felt by 1
- 4.247 km S of Ollagüe, Chile · 407 days ago · 149 km deep · 50 km away
- 4.358 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 405 days ago · 132 km deep · 37 km away
- 4.671 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 402 days ago · 121 km deep · 23 km away
- 4.115 km ENE of Calama, Chile · 396 days ago · 122 km deep · 47 km away
- 4.260 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 392 days ago · 139 km deep · 34 km away
- 4.152 km SW of Ollagüe, Chile · 385 days ago · 134 km deep · 44 km away
- 4.548 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 381 days ago · 122 km deep · 46 km away
- 4.137 km WNW of Ollagüe, Chile · 380 days ago · 131 km deep · 96 km away
- 4.739 km N of Calama, Chile · 373 days ago · 102 km deep · 37 km away
- 4.341 km N of Calama, Chile · 372 days ago · 103 km deep · 36 km away
- 4.257 km SW of Ollagüe, Chile · 372 days ago · 136 km deep · 41 km away
- 4.455 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 370 days ago · 114 km deep · 90 km away
- 4.646 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 369 days ago · 118 km deep · 94 km away
- 4.251 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 367 days ago · 108 km deep · 16 km away
- 4.279 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 366 days ago · 103 km deep · 83 km away · felt by 1
- 4.385 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 364 days ago · 105 km deep · 88 km away
Before
- 4.454 km NE of Calama, Chile · 424 days ago · 118 km deep · 15 km away
- 4.565 km SW of Ollagüe, Chile · 426 days ago · 108 km deep · 42 km away
- 4.274 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 427 days ago · 122 km deep · 21 km away
- 4.453 km ENE of Calama, Chile · 434 days ago · 113 km deep · 35 km away
- 5.240 km NE of Calama, Chile · 435 days ago · 106 km deep · 23 km away · felt by 4
- 4.231 km WNW of San Pedro de Atacama, Chile · 441 days ago · 111 km deep · 94 km away
- 4.243 km WSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 442 days ago · 126 km deep · 62 km away
- 4.440 km NNE of San Pedro de Atacama, Chile · 446 days ago · 154 km deep · 94 km away
- 4.130 km WNW of Ollag?e, Chile · 447 days ago · 119 km deep · 93 km away
- 4.228 km E of Calama, Chile · 452 days ago · 109 km deep · 47 km away
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