M4.0 earthquake 30 km WNW of Coquimbo, Chile
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake struck 30 km WNW of Coquimbo, Chile on Tue, Aug 16, 2016, 6:27 AM GMT-3 (09:27 UTC), 24 km (15 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M4.9 33 km WSW of Ovalle, Chile. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 4.0 (mb, body-wave), light
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2016-08-16 09:27:28 UTC
- Depth
- 24.1 km (15.0 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 29.845° S, 71.632° W
- Region
- Chile
- Tsunami flag
- No
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
What happened
The USGS’s account of the effects of this earthquake.
Felt (III) at Coquimbo, La Higuera and La Serena.
From the USGS event page for us10006e3g. U.S. Geological Survey text and figures are in the public domain.
Did you feel it?
No one has reported feeling this quake to the USGS.
How well it is located
Reviewed by a seismologist.
- Location uncertainty
- About 6.8 km horizontally, 8.0 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.52
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 147°
- Stations used
- 47
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 20 in the 60 days after this one and 11 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.134 km W of Ovalle, Chile · 3695 days ago · 27 km deep · 87 km away
- 4.4107 km WSW of Coquimbo, Chile · 3691 days ago · 9 km deep · 89 km away
- 4.083 km WNW of Coquimbo, Chile · 3687 days ago · 10 km deep · 53 km away · felt by 1
- 4.319 km WSW of Ovalle, Chile · 3685 days ago · 49 km deep · 94 km away
- 4.4103 km W of Ovalle, Chile · 3675 days ago · 10 km deep · 91 km away
- 4.356 km W of Ovalle, Chile · 3674 days ago · 42 km deep · 90 km away
- 4.287 km WSW of Coquimbo, Chile · 3670 days ago · 14 km deep · 75 km away
- 4.685 km WSW of Vallenar, Chile · 3668 days ago · 20 km deep · 96 km away
- 4.117 km WSW of Ovalle, Chile · 3665 days ago · 51 km deep · 94 km away · felt by 1
- 4.227 km WSW of Ovalle, Chile · 3663 days ago · 48 km deep · 97 km away
- 4.215 km SSW of Vicuña, Chile · 3661 days ago · 88 km deep · 92 km away
- 3.736 km WNW of Coquimbo, Chile · 3659 days ago · 30 km deep · 6 km away · felt by 1
- 4.660 km SW of Coquimbo, Chile · 3658 days ago · 30 km deep · 57 km away · felt by 1
- 4.877 km WNW of Coquimbo, Chile · 3652 days ago · 10 km deep · 47 km away
- 4.026 km WSW of Ovalle, Chile · 3648 days ago · 40 km deep · 94 km away
- 4.012 km ENE of Ovalle, Chile · 3646 days ago · 83 km deep · 95 km away
- 4.254 km N of La Serena, Chile · 3645 days ago · 50 km deep · 62 km away · felt by 1
- 4.186 km WNW of Coquimbo, Chile · 3645 days ago · 15 km deep · 55 km away
- 4.088 km WNW of Ovalle, Chile · 3643 days ago · 18 km deep · 78 km away
- 4.933 km WSW of Ovalle, Chile · 3641 days ago · 38 km deep · 95 km away
Before
- 4.377 km WNW of Coquimbo, Chile · 3711 days ago · 29 km deep · 47 km away
- 4.278 km W of Ovalle, Chile · 3715 days ago · 18 km deep · 87 km away
- 4.487 km WSW of Coquimbo, Chile · 3716 days ago · 18 km deep · 76 km away
- 4.349 km WNW of Ovalle, Chile · 3717 days ago · 28 km deep · 58 km away
- 4.218 km SW of Ovalle, Chile · 3720 days ago · 51 km deep · 100 km away
- 4.251 km W of Ovalle, Chile · 3723 days ago · 34 km deep · 95 km away
- 4.682 km WSW of Coquimbo, Chile · 3726 days ago · 8 km deep · 61 km away
- 5.869 km WSW of Coquimbo, Chile · 3726 days ago · 8 km deep · 56 km away
- 4.035 km W of Ovalle, Chile · 3726 days ago · 23 km deep · 87 km away
- 4.863 km W of Ovalle, Chile · 3727 days ago · 26 km deep · 98 km away
- 5.067 km SW of Coquimbo, Chile · 3727 days ago · 35 km deep · 61 km away · felt by 3
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us10006e3g. Read Thu, Oct 1, 2026, 8:06 AM UTC.