24h Quakes
51events
Largest Recent
M 4.5peak
Latest Epicenter
66 km SSW of Calama, Chile (Depth 78.7km, 1h ago)
Tectonic Setting
Atacama Trench
Historical Benchmark
1960 Valdivia M9.5 (World Record), 2010 Maule M8.8
LIVE Connected
High-Seismic Subduction Sector
South America Earthquakes & Country Summary
Real-time seismic activity along the Nazca-South American Plate boundary and Peru-Chile Trench. Continuous telemetry aggregated from CSN (Chile), IGP (Peru), SGC (Colombia), IGEPN (Ecuador), and USGS.
Past 24h:68 Events
Peak:M 5.9 1184 km NNE of Acaraú, Brazil
Slip Rate:67 mm/yr Nazca
LIVE Sensor Grid Feed
Nazca SubductionNazca-South American Subduction
Active SubductionM7.0+
M6.0-6.9
M5.0-5.9
<M5.0
National Seismic Summaries
Telemetry reports broken down by national observatory networks along the Andean orogeny.
24h Quakes
2events
Largest Recent
M 2.6peak
Latest Epicenter
92 km E of Tacna, Peru (Depth 127.5km, 2h ago)
Tectonic Setting
Peru Trench
Historical Benchmark
1970 Ancash M7.9, 2007 Pisco M8.0
24h Quakes
4events
Largest Recent
M 4.7peak
Latest Epicenter
45 km NNW of Salinas, Ecuador (Depth 10km, 13h ago)
Tectonic Setting
Carnegie Ridge Collision
Historical Benchmark
Cotopaxi & Tungurahua active deformation monitoring
Active Nest
24h Quakes
1events
Largest Recent
M 4.2peak
Latest Epicenter
150 km ESE of San Andrés, Colombia (Depth 3km, 15h ago)
Tectonic Setting
Romeral Fault System
Historical Benchmark
Bucaramanga Nest — 2nd most active nest globally
Intra-Slab Deep
24h Quakes
7events
Largest Recent
M 3.3peak
Latest Epicenter
189 km WNW of San Salvador de Jujuy, Argentina (Depth 228.2km, 1h ago)
Tectonic Setting
Precordillera & Pampean Flat-Slab
Historical Benchmark
1944 San Juan M7.0, 1977 Caucete M7.4
24h Quakes
3events
Largest Recent
M 4.2peak
Latest Epicenter
Mérida Andes fault corridor (Depth 15km, 16h ago)
Tectonic Setting
Boconó & El Pilar Faults
Historical Benchmark
1967 Caracas M6.6, 1997 Cariaco M6.9
Recent Earthquakes in South America
LIVEFiltered telemetry of events detected in the South American regional bounding box within the past 24 hours.