M4.1 earthquake 56 km WSW of Quellón, Chile
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake struck 56 km WSW of Quellón, Chile on Sun, Dec 25, 2016, 1:00 PM GMT-3 (16:00 UTC), 16 km (10 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
- 4.1 (mb), light
- Local time
- UTC
- 2016-12-25 16:00:02 UTC
- Depth
- 16.1 km (10.0 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 43.356° S, 74.228° W
- Region
- Chile
- Tsunami flag
- No
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
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 5.1 km horizontally, 6.4 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.23
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 224°, poorly surrounded by stations
- Stations used
- 23
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 23 in the 60 days after this one and 5 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.169 km W of Quellón, Chile · 3565 days ago · 14 km deep · 22 km away
- 4.585 km WSW of Quellón, Chile · 3565 days ago · 14 km deep · 30 km away
- 4.574 km WSW of Quellón, Chile · 3565 days ago · 17 km deep · 23 km away
- 4.1100 km W of Quellón, Chile · 3565 days ago · 14 km deep · 50 km away
- 4.186 km WSW of Quellón, Chile · 3565 days ago · 8 km deep · 30 km away
- 5.268 km WSW of Quellón, Chile · 3565 days ago · 18 km deep · 21 km away
- 4.278 km WSW of Quellón, Chile · 3564 days ago · 11 km deep · 28 km away · felt by 1
- 4.174 km WSW of Quellón, Chile · 3564 days ago · 21 km deep · 21 km away
- 4.370 km W of Quellón, Chile · 3564 days ago · 15 km deep · 35 km away
- 4.763 km WSW of Quellón, Chile · 3563 days ago · 23 km deep · 8 km away · felt by 1
- 4.849 km SW of Quellón, Chile · 3563 days ago · 30 km deep · 15 km away
- 4.556 km W of Quellón, Chile · 3563 days ago · 26 km deep · 16 km away
- 3.978 km W of Quellón, Chile · 3563 days ago · 15 km deep · 32 km away
- 4.164 km WSW of Quellón, Chile · 3562 days ago · 15 km deep · 10 km away
- 4.168 km W of Quellón, Chile · 3562 days ago · 19 km deep · 31 km away
- 3.966 km WSW of Quellón, Chile · 3558 days ago · 22 km deep · 17 km away
- 4.280 km WSW of Quellón, Chile · 3558 days ago · 19 km deep · 24 km away
- 5.576 km WSW of Quellón, Chile · 3556 days ago · 10 km deep · 22 km away · felt by 4
- 4.149 km WSW of Quellón, Chile · 3553 days ago · 25 km deep · 10 km away
- 4.552 km WSW of Quellón, Chile · 3541 days ago · 26 km deep · 10 km away
- 4.152 km W of Quellón, Chile · 3537 days ago · 16 km deep · 21 km away
- 3.978 km SW of Quellón, Chile · 3528 days ago · 19 km deep · 25 km away
- 4.169 km W of Quellón, Chile · 3521 days ago · 15 km deep · 24 km away
Before
- 4.471 km WSW of Quellón, Chile · 3565 days ago · 15 km deep · 18 km away · felt by 1
- 4.065 km WSW of Quellón, Chile · 3565 days ago · 22 km deep · 19 km away
- 4.364 km WSW of Quellón, Chile · 3565 days ago · 30 km deep · 13 km away
- 5.680 km WSW of Quellón, Chile · 3565 days ago · 15 km deep · 24 km away · felt by 1
- 7.641 km SW of Quellón, Chile · 3565 days ago · 38 km deep · 24 km away · felt by 283 · PAGER yellow · tsunami flag
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us10007mp7. Read Tue, Sep 29, 2026, 11:27 AM UTC.