M7.6 earthquake 41 km SW of Quellón, Chile
A magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck 41 km SW of Quellón, Chile on Sun, Dec 25, 2016, 11:22 AM GMT-3 (14:22 UTC), 38 km (24 mi) below the surface.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 7.6 (mww), major
- Local time
- UTC
- 2016-12-25 14:22:27 UTC
- Depth
- 38.0 km (23.6 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 43.406° S, 73.941° W
- Region
- Chile
- Felt reports
- 283
- Strongest shaking
- VIII, severe shaking
- PAGER alert
- Yellow
- Tsunami flag
- Yes: a large quake in an oceanic region
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
Deaths and damage
From NOAA NCEI’s Significant Earthquake Database (record 10224), matched to this event by time and place.
- Damage
- Limited (under about $1 million)
Where the literature gives no number, NCEI records a description on a scale of 1 to 4, printed here in its words. Damage is in millions of US dollars of the year of the event, not adjusted for inflation.
Tsunami
The USGS flags a quake this large in an oceanic region. The flag does not mean a tsunami happened; the tsunami warning centers decide that, and their messages are below when they issued any.
Current tsunami warnings: tsunami.gov. Warnings in force in the US also appear on our alerts pages.
Shaking
The USGS ShakeMap: shaking estimated from seismic stations and the quake’s size, on the Modified Mercalli intensity scale.
- Strongest estimated
- VIII, severe shaking
- Peak ground acceleration
- 46.3% of gravity
- Peak ground velocity
- 3.6 cm/s
- Map
- Automatic
Did you feel it?
283 people reported to the USGS what they felt; the strongest reported shaking was IX, violent shaking.
Estimated impact
The USGS PAGER system estimates deaths and economic losses from the shaking and the population and buildings exposed to it.
- Alert level
- Yellow: some damage and deaths possible, a local or regional response
Fault motion and ground failure
How the rock slipped, from the moment tensor, and the USGS estimate of landslides and liquefaction.
- Faulting
- Reverse (thrust)
- Moment magnitude
- 7.6 Mww
- Nodal plane 1
- Strike 183°, dip 74°, rake 92°
- Nodal plane 2
- Strike 356°, dip 16°, rake 83°
How well it is located
Reviewed by a seismologist.
- Location uncertainty
- About 5.4 km horizontally, 1.9 km in depth
- Depth from
- Operator assigned
- Station coverage gap
- 29°
- Stations used
- 150
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 4.6 and up: 5 in the 60 days after this one and 0 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 5.680 km WSW of Quellón, Chile · 3565 days ago · 15 km deep · 44 km away · felt by 1
- 5.268 km WSW of Quellón, Chile · 3564 days ago · 18 km deep · 44 km away
- 4.763 km WSW of Quellón, Chile · 3563 days ago · 23 km deep · 31 km away · felt by 1
- 4.849 km SW of Quellón, Chile · 3563 days ago · 30 km deep · 10 km away
- 5.576 km WSW of Quellón, Chile · 3555 days ago · 10 km deep · 46 km away · felt by 4
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us10007mn3 (also filed as at00oiqvxe, pt16360050, iscgem609939179). Read Tue, Sep 29, 2026, 5:00 AM UTC.