24h Quakes
38events
Largest Recent
M 6.2peak
Latest Epicenter
48 km W of Antofagasta (Depth 34km, 2h 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:35 Events
Peak:M 5.0 4.52°N, 76.88°W
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
19events
Largest Recent
M 5.4peak
Latest Epicenter
22 km SW of Arequipa (Depth 82km, 5h ago)
Tectonic Setting
Peru Trench
Historical Benchmark
1970 Ancash M7.9, 2007 Pisco M8.0
24h Quakes
9events
Largest Recent
M 4.7peak
Latest Epicenter
18 km N of Esmeraldas (Depth 22km, 11h ago)
Tectonic Setting
Carnegie Ridge Collision
Historical Benchmark
Cotopaxi & Tungurahua active deformation monitoring
Active Nest
24h Quakes
6events
Largest Recent
M 4.5peak
Latest Epicenter
Los Santos, Santander (Depth 148km, 14h ago)
Tectonic Setting
Romeral Fault System
Historical Benchmark
Bucaramanga Nest — 2nd most active nest globally
Intra-Slab Deep
24h Quakes
4events
Largest Recent
M 4.4peak
Latest Epicenter
San Juan / Jujuy Andean corridor (Depth 120km, 18h 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.
