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Prakruti

Observed earthquake

93 km NW of Iquique, Chile

Recent observation

Reported by 1 agency. Every solution below is that agency's own measurement, stored unaltered.

Magnitude
8.2mww
Depth
25 km
shallow
Origin time
2014-04-01 23:46:47 UTC
12 y ago
Epicentre
19.61°S, 70.77°W

A reporting agency set the tsunami evaluation flag for this earthquake. That flag means the event met criteria for tsunami assessment — it is not itself a tsunami warning. Official tsunami warnings come only from your national tsunami warning centre.

Agency solutions

The same earthquake as measured independently by each agency. Values are never averaged or rewritten.

Recent observation
AgencyMagnitudeDepthOrigin timeEpicentreReview statusSource record
USGSUnited States Geological SurveyM8.2 mww25 km2014-04-01 23:46:47 UTC19.61°S, 70.77°WReviewed by an analystusc000nzvd ↗

Source: Earthquake data courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey. · Retrieved: 2026-09-21 15:50:36 UTC

Felt reports

Recent observation
357 people submitted a felt report to United States Geological Survey · community intensity estimate 8.5 · instrumental intensity estimate 8.204.

Felt reports are crowd-sourced and reflect where people had internet access and chose to respond. They are not a complete map of who felt the earthquake.