M4.4 earthquake 34 km SW of Camiña, Chile
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake struck 34 km SW of Camiña, Chile on Sun, Sep 28, 2025, 5:53 PM GMT-3 (20:53 UTC), 18 km (11 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M4.8 32 km E of Camiña, Chile. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 4.4 (Mwr, regional moment), light
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2025-09-28 20:53:18 UTC
- Depth
- 17.8 km (11.0 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 19.519° S, 69.678° W
- Region
- Chile
- Felt reports
- 20
- Tsunami flag
- No
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
Did you feel it?
20 people reported to the USGS what they felt; the strongest reported shaking was IV, light shaking.
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
- 4.4 Mwr
- Nodal plane 1
- Strike 203°, dip 71°, rake -59°
- Nodal plane 2
- Strike 322°, dip 36°, rake -146°
How well it is located
Reviewed by a seismologist.
- Location uncertainty
- About 2.5 km horizontally, 4.0 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.07
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 123°
- Stations used
- 53
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 8 in the 60 days after this one and 8 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.270 km E of Huara, Chile · 350 days ago · 106 km deep · 74 km away
- 4.628 km NE of Cuya, Chile · 334 days ago · 81 km deep · 64 km away
- 4.525 km ESE of Camiña, Chile · 325 days ago · 10 km deep · 54 km away
- 4.729 km ESE of Camiña, Chile · 325 days ago · 10 km deep · 57 km away · felt by 1
- 4.336 km E of Camiña, Chile · 324 days ago · 2 km deep · 68 km away
- 4.832 km E of Camiña, Chile · 324 days ago · 7 km deep · 63 km away · felt by 1
- 4.341 km E of Camiña, Chile · 323 days ago · 10 km deep · 71 km away
- 4.114 km ESE of Camiña, Chile · 323 days ago · 10 km deep · 44 km away
Before
- 5.327 km SSE of Camiña, Chile · 372 days ago · 109 km deep · 38 km away · felt by 18
- 4.529 km S of Camiña, Chile · 375 days ago · 105 km deep · 29 km away
- 4.137 km E of Camiña, Chile · 377 days ago · 10 km deep · 65 km away
- 5.542 km ENE of La Tirana, Chile · 378 days ago · 96 km deep · 91 km away · felt by 36
- 4.864 km ENE of La Tirana, Chile · 382 days ago · 109 km deep · 86 km away · felt by 13
- 4.438 km ENE of Camiña, Chile · 394 days ago · 122 km deep · 71 km away · felt by 1
- 4.639 km N of Camiña, Chile · 399 days ago · 112 km deep · 69 km away
- 3.815 km WNW of Huara, Chile · 399 days ago · 55 km deep · 53 km away · felt by 4
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us6000rdhh. Read Fri, Oct 2, 2026, 11:14 AM UTC.