M4.6 earthquake 12 km SE of Camiña, Chile
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake struck 12 km SE of Camiña, Chile on Sat, Aug 23, 2025, 11:44 PM GMT-4 (03:44 UTC), 98 km (61 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M5.5 42 km ENE of La Tirana, 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
- 2025-08-24 03:44:08 UTC
- Depth
- 97.7 km (60.7 mi), intermediate-depth
- Epicenter
- 19.388° S, 69.333° W
- Region
- Chile
- Felt reports
- 12
- Tsunami flag
- No
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
Did you feel it?
12 people reported to the USGS what they felt; the strongest reported shaking was III, weak shaking.
Fault motion and ground failure
How the rock slipped, from the moment tensor, and the USGS estimate of landslides and liquefaction.
- Faulting
- Strike-slip
- Moment magnitude
- 4.6 Mwr
- Nodal plane 1
- Strike 169°, dip 44°, rake -152°
- Nodal plane 2
- Strike 59°, dip 71°, rake -49°
How well it is located
Reviewed by a seismologist.
- Location uncertainty
- About 6.5 km horizontally, 4.2 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.09
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 108°
- Stations used
- 65
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.6 and up: 10 in the 60 days after this one and 3 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 3.815 km WNW of Huara, Chile · 398 days ago · 55 km deep · 86 km away · felt by 4
- 4.639 km N of Camiña, Chile · 398 days ago · 112 km deep · 49 km away
- 4.438 km ENE of Camiña, Chile · 394 days ago · 122 km deep · 33 km away · felt by 1
- 4.864 km ENE of La Tirana, Chile · 381 days ago · 109 km deep · 80 km away · felt by 13
- 5.542 km ENE of La Tirana, Chile · 378 days ago · 96 km deep · 95 km away · felt by 36
- 4.137 km E of Camiña, Chile · 376 days ago · 10 km deep · 27 km away
- 4.529 km S of Camiña, Chile · 374 days ago · 105 km deep · 22 km away
- 5.327 km SSE of Camiña, Chile · 371 days ago · 109 km deep · 17 km away · felt by 18
- 4.434 km SW of Camiña, Chile · 368 days ago · 18 km deep · 39 km away · felt by 20
- 4.270 km E of Huara, Chile · 350 days ago · 106 km deep · 63 km away
Before
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us6000r3fa. Read Fri, Oct 2, 2026, 4:51 AM UTC.