M4.8 earthquake 41 km N of La Ligua, Chile
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake struck 41 km N of La Ligua, Chile on Wed, Aug 10, 2016, 4:20 AM GMT-4 (08:20 UTC), 84 km (52 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M4.9 39 km WNW of La Ligua, Chile. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 4.8 (mwr), light
- Local time
- UTC
- 2016-08-10 08:20:18 UTC
- Depth
- 84.0 km (52.2 mi), intermediate-depth
- Epicenter
- 32.080° S, 71.259° W
- Region
- Chile
- Felt reports
- 9
- Tsunami flag
- No
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
Did you feel it?
9 people reported to the USGS what they felt; the strongest reported shaking was IV, light shaking.
Fault motion and ground failure
How the rock slipped, from the moment tensor, and the USGS estimate of landslides and liquefaction.
- Faulting
- Normal
- Moment magnitude
- 4.5 Mwr
- Nodal plane 1
- Strike 32°, dip 57°, rake -82°
- Nodal plane 2
- Strike 198°, dip 34°, rake -102°
How well it is located
Reviewed by a seismologist.
- Location uncertainty
- About 5.6 km horizontally, 4.9 km in depth
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 69°
- Stations used
- 82
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.8 and up: 10 in the 60 days after this one and 7 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 3.854 km W of La Ligua, Chile · 3692 days ago · 35 km deep · 63 km away
- 4.430 km NNW of Valparaíso, Chile · 3678 days ago · 28 km deep · 88 km away · felt by 2
- 4.388 km WNW of La Ligua, Chile · 3672 days ago · 8 km deep · 78 km away
- 4.255 km SW of Illapel, Chile · 3668 days ago · 67 km deep · 37 km away
- 4.939 km WNW of La Ligua, Chile · 3667 days ago · 30 km deep · 43 km away · felt by 4
- 3.879 km W of Illapel, Chile · 3661 days ago · 35 km deep · 90 km away
- 4.731 km E of Salamanca, Chile · 3653 days ago · 10 km deep · 69 km away
- 3.944 km NNW of Viña del Mar, Chile · 3650 days ago · 18 km deep · 72 km away
- 4.078 km NW of La Ligua, Chile · 3650 days ago · 42 km deep · 63 km away
- 4.661 km NW of La Ligua, Chile · 3643 days ago · 16 km deep · 42 km away
Before
- 4.558 km SW of Illapel, Chile · 3695 days ago · 32 km deep · 40 km away
- 4.599 km W of Illapel, Chile · 3696 days ago · 18 km deep · 98 km away
- 5.046 km W of Illapel, Chile · 3697 days ago · 30 km deep · 66 km away
- 4.637 km WNW of Illapel, Chile · 3707 days ago · 42 km deep · 65 km away
- 4.366 km W of Illapel, Chile · 3707 days ago · 32 km deep · 69 km away
- 4.8Near the coast of Valparaiso, Chile · 3710 days ago · 16 km deep · 82 km away · felt by 51
- 4.329 km WSW of Illapel, Chile · 3722 days ago · 43 km deep · 43 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us10006cjm. Read Tue, Sep 22, 2026, 5:24 PM UTC.