M3.9 earthquake 66 km WNW of La Ligua, Chile
A magnitude 3.9 earthquake struck 66 km WNW of La Ligua, Chile on Thu, Nov 10, 2016, 9:11 PM GMT-3 (00:11 UTC), 20 km (13 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M5.2 60 km W of Illapel, Chile. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 3.9 (mwr), minor
- Local time
- UTC
- 2016-11-11 00:11:05 UTC
- Depth
- 20.2 km (12.6 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 32.128° S, 71.829° W
- Region
- Chile
- Felt reports
- 1
- Tsunami flag
- No
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
Did you feel it?
1 person reported to the USGS what they felt; the strongest reported shaking was II, weak 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
- 3.9 Mwr
- Nodal plane 1
- Strike 350°, dip 81°, rake -109°
- Nodal plane 2
- Strike 236°, dip 21°, rake -26°
How well it is located
Reviewed by a seismologist.
- Location uncertainty
- About 2.8 km horizontally, 6.7 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.04
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 173°
- Stations used
- 41
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 12 in the 60 days after this one and 2 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.241 km W of Illapel, Chile · 3604 days ago · 48 km deep · 54 km away
- 4.370 km WSW of Illapel, Chile · 3592 days ago · 6 km deep · 30 km away
- 4.320 km S of Salamanca, Chile · 3589 days ago · 91 km deep · 81 km away
- 4.777 km WNW of La Ligua, Chile · 3585 days ago · 23 km deep · 15 km away · felt by 2
- 4.470 km W of Illapel, Chile · 3580 days ago · 10 km deep · 56 km away
- 5.260 km W of Illapel, Chile · 3579 days ago · 41 km deep · 65 km away · felt by 16
- 4.949 km WNW of Illapel, Chile · 3579 days ago · 34 km deep · 73 km away
- 4.445 km WNW of Illapel, Chile · 3578 days ago · 52 km deep · 70 km away
- 3.824 km SW of La Ligua, Chile · 3576 days ago · 36 km deep · 68 km away
- 4.013 km SW of Illapel, Chile · 3569 days ago · 54 km deep · 70 km away
- 4.0111 km WNW of La Ligua, Chile · 3562 days ago · 25 km deep · 51 km away
- 4.442 km NNW of La Ligua, Chile · 3555 days ago · 90 km deep · 48 km away
Before
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us100076s2. Read Sat, Sep 26, 2026, 10:03 PM UTC.