M4.2 earthquake 46 km W of Ollagüe, Chile
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake struck 46 km W of Ollagüe, Chile on Fri, Apr 4, 2025, 12:07 AM GMT-3 (03:07 UTC), 124 km (77 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M5.0 20 km NW 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
- 4.2 (mb, body-wave), light
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2025-04-04 03:07:51 UTC
- Depth
- 123.9 km (77.0 mi), intermediate-depth
- Epicenter
- 21.157° S, 68.700° 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.
How well it is located
Reviewed by a seismologist.
- Location uncertainty
- About 5.3 km horizontally, 7.4 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.15
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 53°
- Stations used
- 28
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 19 in the 60 days after this one and 9 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.459 km SW of Ollagüe, Chile · 546 days ago · 114 km deep · 48 km away
- 5.020 km NW of Ollagüe, Chile · 541 days ago · 121 km deep · 33 km away · felt by 2
- 4.164 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 539 days ago · 103 km deep · 20 km away
- 4.257 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 538 days ago · 133 km deep · 92 km away
- 4.064 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 535 days ago · 131 km deep · 18 km away
- 4.669 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 527 days ago · 128 km deep · 88 km away · felt by 1
- 4.273 km WSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 525 days ago · 120 km deep · 38 km away
- 4.358 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 522 days ago · 133 km deep · 63 km away
- 4.872 km NW of Ollagüe, Chile · 521 days ago · 100 km deep · 42 km away · felt by 6
- 4.347 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 520 days ago · 110 km deep · 59 km away
- 4.062 km WSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 517 days ago · 124 km deep · 37 km away
- 4.267 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 514 days ago · 114 km deep · 86 km away
- 4.478 km S of La Tirana, Chile · 514 days ago · 62 km deep · 95 km away · felt by 5
- 4.238 km SW of Ollagüe, Chile · 511 days ago · 144 km deep · 40 km away
- 4.182 km ESE of La Tirana, Chile · 510 days ago · 100 km deep · 56 km away
- 4.396 km WSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 508 days ago · 96 km deep · 61 km away
- 4.281 km WNW of Ollagüe, Chile · 502 days ago · 103 km deep · 40 km away
- 4.332 km WNW of Ollagüe, Chile · 500 days ago · 130 km deep · 17 km away
- 4.668 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 491 days ago · 124 km deep · 75 km away
Before
- 4.857 km NE of Calama, Chile · 546 days ago · 113 km deep · 99 km away
- 4.460 km SW of Ollagüe, Chile · 550 days ago · 119 km deep · 55 km away
- 4.143 km WNW of Ollagüe, Chile · 559 days ago · 145 km deep · 14 km away
- 4.561 km E of La Tirana, Chile · 560 days ago · 101 km deep · 88 km away · felt by 4
- 4.672 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 566 days ago · 118 km deep · 80 km away
- 4.339 km WSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 567 days ago · 133 km deep · 26 km away
- 4.433 km WNW of Ollagüe, Chile · 567 days ago · 133 km deep · 21 km away
- 4.285 km N of Ollagüe, Chile · 570 days ago · 187 km deep · 99 km away
- 4.232 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 570 days ago · 131 km deep · 16 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us6000q3v6. Read Fri, Oct 2, 2026, 7:02 AM UTC.