M4.3 earthquake 47 km ENE of Calama, Chile
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake struck 47 km ENE of Calama, Chile on Sat, Nov 29, 2025, 4:32 PM GMT-3 (19:32 UTC), 110 km (68 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M4.7 57 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
- 4.3 (Mwr, regional moment), light
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2025-11-29 19:32:49 UTC
- Depth
- 109.8 km (68.3 mi), intermediate-depth
- Epicenter
- 22.332° S, 68.482° 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
- Oblique normal
- Moment magnitude
- 4.3 Mwr
- Nodal plane 1
- Strike 143°, dip 44°, rake -132°
- Nodal plane 2
- Strike 15°, dip 59°, rake -57°
How well it is located
Reviewed by a seismologist.
- Location uncertainty
- About 5.3 km horizontally, 5.1 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.10
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 60°
- Stations used
- 45
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 14 in the 60 days after this one and 7 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.167 km S of Calama, Chile · 303 days ago · 103 km deep · 89 km away
- 4.444 km WNW of San Pedro de Atacama, Chile · 301 days ago · 123 km deep · 46 km away
- 4.141 km SW of San Pedro de Atacama, Chile · 300 days ago · 113 km deep · 88 km away
- 4.032 km W of San Pedro de Atacama, Chile · 296 days ago · 108 km deep · 63 km away
- 4.342 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 296 days ago · 117 km deep · 34 km away
- 4.278 km N of Calama, Chile · 290 days ago · 96 km deep · 80 km away
- 4.061 km NE of Calama, Chile · 289 days ago · 118 km deep · 34 km away
- 4.318 km SSW of Calama, Chile · 281 days ago · 110 km deep · 62 km away
- 4.045 km SW of Ollagüe, Chile · 279 days ago · 149 km deep · 94 km away
- 4.273 km NE of San Pedro de Atacama, Chile · 279 days ago · 184 km deep · 93 km away
- 4.634 km ESE of Calama, Chile · 279 days ago · 108 km deep · 24 km away
- 4.757 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 272 days ago · 132 km deep · 71 km away
- 4.343 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 259 days ago · 111 km deep · 36 km away
- 4.544 km E of Calama, Chile · 252 days ago · 127 km deep · 7 km away
Before
- 4.443 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 307 days ago · 145 km deep · 82 km away
- 4.553 km S of Ollagüe, Chile · 308 days ago · 118 km deep · 72 km away
- 4.273 km SW of Ollagüe, Chile · 309 days ago · 120 km deep · 67 km away
- 4.051 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 310 days ago · 114 km deep · 36 km away
- 4.262 km NE of Calama, Chile · 310 days ago · 122 km deep · 40 km away
- 4.070 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 327 days ago · 141 km deep · 49 km away
- 4.051 km NE of Calama, Chile · 331 days ago · 122 km deep · 30 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us7000remr. Read Thu, Oct 1, 2026, 7:46 AM UTC.