M4.6 earthquake 69 km NNE of Calama, Chile
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake struck 69 km NNE of Calama, Chile on Wed, Apr 23, 2025, 5:06 AM GMT-4 (09:06 UTC), 128 km (80 mi) below the surface.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 4.6 (mb, body-wave), light
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2025-04-23 09:06:38 UTC
- Depth
- 128.0 km (79.5 mi), intermediate-depth
- Epicenter
- 21.935° S, 68.552° W
- Region
- Chile
- Felt reports
- 1
- Tsunami flag
- No
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
Did you feel it?
1 person reported to the USGS what they felt; the strongest reported shaking was II, weak shaking.

How well it is located
Reviewed by a seismologist.
- Location uncertainty
- About 5.7 km horizontally, 5.3 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.09
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 54°
- Stations used
- 51
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.6 and up: 18 in the 60 days after this one and 11 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.273 km WSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 525 days ago · 120 km deep · 70 km away
- 4.358 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 522 days ago · 133 km deep · 27 km away
- 4.234 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 521 days ago · 108 km deep · 35 km away
- 4.347 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 520 days ago · 110 km deep · 37 km away
- 4.062 km WSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 517 days ago · 124 km deep · 57 km away
- 4.648 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 516 days ago · 113 km deep · 21 km away
- 4.488 km NE of San Pedro de Atacama, Chile · 516 days ago · 177 km deep · 99 km away
- 4.267 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 514 days ago · 114 km deep · 5 km away
- 4.238 km SW of Ollagüe, Chile · 511 days ago · 144 km deep · 52 km away
- 4.396 km WSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 508 days ago · 96 km deep · 72 km away
- 4.332 km WNW of Ollagüe, Chile · 500 days ago · 130 km deep · 92 km away
- 4.530 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 497 days ago · 121 km deep · 41 km away
- 4.145 km ENE of Calama, Chile · 494 days ago · 115 km deep · 37 km away
- 4.668 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 491 days ago · 124 km deep · 16 km away
- 4.319 km ESE of Calama, Chile · 490 days ago · 111 km deep · 71 km away
- 4.183 km NNW of Calama, Chile · 477 days ago · 94 km deep · 60 km away
- 4.337 km NE of Calama, Chile · 474 days ago · 113 km deep · 36 km away
- 4.248 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 470 days ago · 117 km deep · 80 km away
Before
- 4.513 km NE of Calama, Chile · 535 days ago · 118 km deep · 57 km away · felt by 1
- 4.064 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 535 days ago · 131 km deep · 95 km away
- 4.257 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 539 days ago · 133 km deep · 15 km away
- 4.164 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 539 days ago · 103 km deep · 86 km away
- 5.020 km NW of Ollagüe, Chile · 541 days ago · 121 km deep · 95 km away · felt by 2
- 4.459 km SW of Ollagüe, Chile · 546 days ago · 114 km deep · 40 km away
- 4.223 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 546 days ago · 111 km deep · 48 km away
- 4.246 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 546 days ago · 124 km deep · 88 km away
- 4.857 km NE of Calama, Chile · 547 days ago · 113 km deep · 13 km away
- 4.460 km SW of Ollagüe, Chile · 550 days ago · 119 km deep · 33 km away
- 4.491 km NE of San Pedro de Atacama, Chile · 552 days ago · 194 km deep · 98 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us7000puff. Read Fri, Oct 2, 2026, 8:53 AM UTC.