M4.6 earthquake 71 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake struck 71 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile on Mon, Aug 25, 2025, 2:01 PM GMT-4 (18:01 UTC), 121 km (75 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M4.8 69 km NNE of Calama, 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 (mb, body-wave), light
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2025-08-25 18:01:03 UTC
- Depth
- 120.6 km (74.9 mi), intermediate-depth
- Epicenter
- 21.790° S, 68.584° 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, 4.3 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.05
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 43°
- Stations used
- 56
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.6 and up: 19 in the 60 days after this one and 10 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.222 km NW of Ollagüe, Chile · 398 days ago · 118 km deep · 79 km away
- 4.115 km ENE of Calama, Chile · 396 days ago · 122 km deep · 70 km away
- 4.260 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 393 days ago · 139 km deep · 11 km away
- 4.152 km SW of Ollagüe, Chile · 386 days ago · 134 km deep · 22 km away
- 4.548 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 381 days ago · 122 km deep · 25 km away
- 4.137 km WNW of Ollagüe, Chile · 380 days ago · 131 km deep · 74 km away
- 4.739 km N of Calama, Chile · 373 days ago · 102 km deep · 54 km away
- 4.341 km N of Calama, Chile · 373 days ago · 103 km deep · 52 km away
- 4.257 km SW of Ollagüe, Chile · 373 days ago · 136 km deep · 20 km away
- 4.455 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 370 days ago · 114 km deep · 70 km away
- 4.646 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 369 days ago · 118 km deep · 73 km away
- 4.251 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 368 days ago · 108 km deep · 33 km away
- 4.279 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 366 days ago · 103 km deep · 69 km away · felt by 1
- 4.385 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 364 days ago · 105 km deep · 74 km away
- 4.268 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 363 days ago · 121 km deep · 14 km away
- 4.355 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 354 days ago · 118 km deep · 26 km away
- 4.178 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 353 days ago · 111 km deep · 87 km away
- 4.869 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 353 days ago · 116 km deep · 13 km away
- 4.267 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 348 days ago · 123 km deep · 16 km away
Before
- 4.358 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 405 days ago · 132 km deep · 18 km away
- 4.247 km S of Ollagüe, Chile · 407 days ago · 149 km deep · 31 km away
- 4.239 km S of Ollagüe, Chile · 407 days ago · 131 km deep · 42 km away · felt by 1
- 4.766 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 417 days ago · 115 km deep · 6 km away
- 4.221 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 421 days ago · 136 km deep · 65 km away
- 4.343 km ENE of Calama, Chile · 423 days ago · 142 km deep · 50 km away
- 4.659 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 423 days ago · 104 km deep · 23 km away
- 4.454 km NE of Calama, Chile · 425 days ago · 118 km deep · 34 km away
- 4.565 km SW of Ollagüe, Chile · 426 days ago · 108 km deep · 24 km away
- 4.274 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 427 days ago · 122 km deep · 5 km away
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