A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Calama in Chile on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 19:32:48 / 7:32 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 106.711 km, -68.4949° West, -22.366° South. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 106.711 km (66 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/11/25 / 2025-11-29 19:32:48 / November 29, 2025 @ 7:32 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000remr. Unique identifier: us7000remr.
Earthquake epicenter was 46 km (28 miles) from Calama (c. 143 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Chile (c. 16 746 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Calama.
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days one hundred and four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 45 km ENE of Calama, Chile.
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