M4.3 earthquake 96 km WSW of Ollagüe, Chile
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake struck 96 km WSW of Ollagüe, Chile on Mon, May 12, 2025, 5:15 AM GMT-4 (09:15 UTC), 96 km (60 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M4.7 73 km WNW 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 (mb, body-wave), light
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2025-05-12 09:15:53 UTC
- Depth
- 96.0 km (59.6 mi), intermediate-depth
- Epicenter
- 21.547° S, 69.114° 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 4.5 km horizontally, 3.8 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.16
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 58°
- 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: 14 in the 60 days after this one and 14 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.281 km WNW of Ollagüe, Chile · 502 days ago · 103 km deep · 74 km away
- 4.332 km WNW of Ollagüe, Chile · 500 days ago · 130 km deep · 77 km away
- 4.530 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 497 days ago · 121 km deep · 79 km away
- 4.145 km ENE of Calama, Chile · 494 days ago · 115 km deep · 100 km away
- 4.668 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 491 days ago · 124 km deep · 70 km away
- 4.773 km WNW of Ollagüe, Chile · 482 days ago · 114 km deep · 56 km away · felt by 5
- 4.183 km NNW of Calama, Chile · 477 days ago · 94 km deep · 19 km away
- 4.337 km NE of Calama, Chile · 474 days ago · 113 km deep · 93 km away
- 4.180 km WNW of Ollagüe, Chile · 471 days ago · 109 km deep · 53 km away
- 4.248 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 470 days ago · 117 km deep · 54 km away
- 4.367 km SE of La Tirana, Chile · 469 days ago · 104 km deep · 91 km away
- 4.354 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 466 days ago · 133 km deep · 63 km away
- 4.581 km SW of Ollagüe, Chile · 466 days ago · 122 km deep · 34 km away
- 4.141 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 453 days ago · 115 km deep · 57 km away
Before
- 4.182 km ESE of La Tirana, Chile · 510 days ago · 100 km deep · 93 km away
- 4.238 km SW of Ollagüe, Chile · 511 days ago · 144 km deep · 62 km away
- 4.478 km S of La Tirana, Chile · 513 days ago · 62 km deep · 76 km away · felt by 5
- 4.267 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 514 days ago · 114 km deep · 68 km away
- 4.648 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 516 days ago · 113 km deep · 73 km away
- 4.062 km WSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 517 days ago · 124 km deep · 34 km away
- 4.347 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 520 days ago · 110 km deep · 71 km away
- 4.234 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 521 days ago · 108 km deep · 79 km away
- 4.872 km NW of Ollagüe, Chile · 521 days ago · 100 km deep · 91 km away · felt by 6
- 4.358 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 522 days ago · 133 km deep · 64 km away
- 4.273 km WSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 524 days ago · 120 km deep · 24 km away
- 4.669 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 527 days ago · 128 km deep · 72 km away · felt by 1
- 4.513 km NE of Calama, Chile · 535 days ago · 118 km deep · 98 km away · felt by 1
- 4.064 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 535 days ago · 131 km deep · 53 km away
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From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us7000pysp. Read Fri, Oct 2, 2026, 2:52 AM UTC.