M4.4 earthquake 71 km WSW of Quellón, Chile
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake struck 71 km WSW of Quellón, Chile on Sun, Dec 25, 2016, 12:41 PM GMT-3 (15:41 UTC), 15 km (9 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M5.5 76 km WSW of Quellón, Chile. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 4.4 (mb, body-wave), light
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2016-12-25 15:41:48 UTC
- Depth
- 14.6 km (9.0 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 43.329° S, 74.448° W
- Region
- Chile
- Felt reports
- 1
- Tsunami flag
- No
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
What happened
The USGS’s account of the effects of this earthquake.
Felt at Puerto Varas.
From the USGS event page for us10007mp2. U.S. Geological Survey text and figures are in the public domain.
Did you feel it?
1 person reported to the USGS what they felt; the strongest reported shaking was IV, light shaking.

How well it is located
Reviewed by a seismologist.
- Location uncertainty
- About 7.4 km horizontally, 6.4 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.22
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 227°, poorly surrounded by stations
- Stations used
- 22
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 24 in the 60 days after this one and 5 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.156 km WSW of Quellón, Chile · 3571 days ago · 16 km deep · 18 km away
- 4.169 km W of Quellón, Chile · 3571 days ago · 14 km deep · 10 km away
- 4.585 km WSW of Quellón, Chile · 3571 days ago · 14 km deep · 15 km away
- 4.574 km WSW of Quellón, Chile · 3570 days ago · 17 km deep · 5 km away
- 4.1100 km W of Quellón, Chile · 3570 days ago · 14 km deep · 32 km away
- 4.186 km WSW of Quellón, Chile · 3570 days ago · 8 km deep · 16 km away
- 5.268 km WSW of Quellón, Chile · 3570 days ago · 18 km deep · 8 km away
- 4.278 km WSW of Quellón, Chile · 3570 days ago · 11 km deep · 10 km away · felt by 1
- 4.174 km WSW of Quellón, Chile · 3570 days ago · 21 km deep · 3 km away
- 4.370 km W of Quellón, Chile · 3570 days ago · 15 km deep · 25 km away
- 4.763 km WSW of Quellón, Chile · 3569 days ago · 23 km deep · 11 km away · felt by 1
- 4.849 km SW of Quellón, Chile · 3569 days ago · 30 km deep · 32 km away
- 4.556 km W of Quellón, Chile · 3568 days ago · 26 km deep · 18 km away
- 3.978 km W of Quellón, Chile · 3568 days ago · 15 km deep · 16 km away
- 4.164 km WSW of Quellón, Chile · 3567 days ago · 15 km deep · 8 km away
- 4.168 km W of Quellón, Chile · 3567 days ago · 19 km deep · 21 km away
- 3.966 km WSW of Quellón, Chile · 3564 days ago · 22 km deep · 7 km away
- 4.280 km WSW of Quellón, Chile · 3563 days ago · 19 km deep · 14 km away
- 5.576 km WSW of Quellón, Chile · 3561 days ago · 10 km deep · 5 km away · felt by 4
- 4.149 km WSW of Quellón, Chile · 3558 days ago · 25 km deep · 22 km away
- 4.552 km WSW of Quellón, Chile · 3547 days ago · 26 km deep · 19 km away
- 4.152 km W of Quellón, Chile · 3543 days ago · 16 km deep · 24 km away
- 3.978 km SW of Quellón, Chile · 3533 days ago · 19 km deep · 25 km away
- 4.169 km W of Quellón, Chile · 3526 days ago · 15 km deep · 12 km away
Before
- 4.065 km WSW of Quellón, Chile · 3571 days ago · 22 km deep · 11 km away
- 4.364 km WSW of Quellón, Chile · 3571 days ago · 30 km deep · 7 km away
- 5.680 km WSW of Quellón, Chile · 3571 days ago · 15 km deep · 17 km away · felt by 1
- 7.641 km SW of Quellón, Chile · 3571 days ago · 38 km deep · 42 km away · felt by 283 · PAGER yellow · tsunami flag
- 4.6161 km WSW of Quellón, Chile · 3576 days ago · 21 km deep · 89 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us10007mp2. Read Mon, Oct 5, 2026, 4:38 AM UTC.