M4.5 earthquake 76 km W of Ollagüe, Chile
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake struck 76 km W of Ollagüe, Chile on Fri, Jun 19, 2026, 4:10 PM GMT-4 (20:10 UTC), 115 km (71 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M4.6 57 km E 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
- 4.5 (Mwr, regional moment), light
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2026-06-19 20:10:11 UTC
- Depth
- 114.7 km (71.3 mi), intermediate-depth
- Epicenter
- 21.110° S, 68.979° 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.
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
- 4.5 Mwr
- Nodal plane 1
- Strike 122°, dip 45°, rake -131°
- Nodal plane 2
- Strike 353°, dip 58°, rake -57°
How well it is located
Reviewed by a seismologist.
- Location uncertainty
- About 4.6 km horizontally, 3.4 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.07
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 44°
- Stations used
- 101
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 11 in the 60 days after this one and 7 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.474 km SW of Ollagüe, Chile · 102 days ago · 103 km deep · 67 km away
- 4.383 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 101 days ago · 97 km deep · 14 km away
- 4.349 km WSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 97 days ago · 126 km deep · 42 km away
- 4.347 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 96 days ago · 127 km deep · 82 km away
- 4.151 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 82 days ago · 129 km deep · 31 km away
- 4.182 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 73 days ago · 114 km deep · 26 km away
- 4.657 km E of La Tirana, Chile · 67 days ago · 102 km deep · 95 km away · felt by 13
- 4.434 km SW of Ollagüe, Chile · 62 days ago · 140 km deep · 64 km away
- 4.059 km E of La Tirana, Chile · 60 days ago · 90 km deep · 96 km away · felt by 1
- 4.267 km WNW of Ollagüe, Chile · 55 days ago · 106 km deep · 13 km away
- 4.355 km WSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 48 days ago · 116 km deep · 46 km away
Before
- 4.231 km SW of Ollagüe, Chile · 109 days ago · 134 km deep · 66 km away
- 4.063 km NNE of Calama, Chile · 115 days ago · 128 km deep · 95 km away
- 4.187 km ESE of La Tirana, Chile · 120 days ago · 97 km deep · 53 km away · felt by 1
- 4.142 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 121 days ago · 135 km deep · 73 km away
- 4.438 km W of Ollagüe, Chile · 128 days ago · 119 km deep · 41 km away
- 4.260 km SE of La Tirana, Chile · 130 days ago · 110 km deep · 53 km away
- 4.469 km WSW of Ollagüe, Chile · 134 days ago · 118 km deep · 32 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us7000suq2. Read Fri, Oct 2, 2026, 1:39 PM UTC.