Chile earthquakes

M4.8 earthquake 46 km W of La Ligua, Chile

A magnitude 4.8 earthquake struck 46 km W of La Ligua, Chile on Fri, Mar 17, 2017, 5:02 AM GMT-3 (08:02 UTC), 27 km (17 mi) below the surface.

A larger quake followed: M6.9 40 km W of Valparaíso, Chile. This one was a foreshock.

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The earthquake

Magnitude
4.8 (mwr), light
Local time
UTC
2017-03-17 08:02:56 UTC
Depth
27.3 km (16.9 mi), shallow
Epicenter
32.447° S, 71.730° W
Region
Chile
Felt reports
23
Tsunami flag
No
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

Did you feel it?

23 people reported to the USGS what they felt; the strongest reported shaking was V, moderate shaking.

Did You Feel It? map: shaking reported by the public
Shaking reported by the public, by area. Map: USGS Did You Feel It?

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
4.8 Mwr
Nodal plane 1
Strike 339°, dip 29°, rake 86°
Nodal plane 2
Strike 163°, dip 61°, rake 92°

How well it is located

Reviewed by a seismologist.

Location uncertainty
About 4.7 km horizontally, 4.0 km in depth
Magnitude uncertainty
±0.04
Depth from
From location
Station coverage gap
64°
Stations used
116

Nearest places

Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.

Nearby

Within 100 km, magnitude 1.8 and up: 154 in the 60 days after this one and 1 in the 30 days before it.

After

  1. 4.091 km WNW of La Ligua, Chile · 3477 days ago · 18 km deep · 49 km away
  2. 4.084 km WNW of La Ligua, Chile · 3477 days ago · 10 km deep · 45 km away
  3. 4.166 km W of Illapel, Chile · 3453 days ago · 58 km deep · 80 km away
  4. 4.033 km SSW of Salamanca, Chile · 3452 days ago · 100 km deep · 71 km away
  5. 4.580 km WNW of La Ligua, Chile · 3450 days ago · 16 km deep · 48 km away
  6. 4.636 km SW of Illapel, Chile · 3449 days ago · 52 km deep · 72 km away · felt by 4
  7. 4.948 km W of Valparaíso, Chile · 3444 days ago · 9 km deep · 71 km away · felt by 17
  8. 4.245 km W of Valparaíso, Chile · 3444 days ago · 19 km deep · 73 km away · felt by 1
  9. 4.642 km W of Valparaíso, Chile · 3444 days ago · 17 km deep · 70 km away · felt by 2
  10. 3.746 km W of Valparaíso, Chile · 3444 days ago · 19 km deep · 72 km away
  11. 6.037 km W of Valparaíso, Chile · 3444 days ago · 21 km deep · 71 km away · felt by 567
  12. 4.736 km W of Valparaíso, Chile · 3444 days ago · 20 km deep · 73 km away
  13. 4.830 km W of Valparaíso, Chile · 3444 days ago · 21 km deep · 67 km away · felt by 2
  14. 4.537 km W of Valparaíso, Chile · 3444 days ago · 16 km deep · 72 km away · felt by 2
  15. 4.545 km W of Valparaíso, Chile · 3444 days ago · 15 km deep · 75 km away · felt by 3
  16. 4.535 km W of Valparaíso, Chile · 3444 days ago · 19 km deep · 74 km away · felt by 5
  17. 4.130 km W of Valparaíso, Chile · 3444 days ago · 20 km deep · 64 km away
  18. 3.938 km W of Valparaíso, Chile · 3444 days ago · 22 km deep · 72 km away
  19. 3.835 km W of Valparaíso, Chile · 3444 days ago · 24 km deep · 74 km away
  20. 4.134 km WNW of Valparaíso, Chile · 3443 days ago · 21 km deep · 62 km away · felt by 2
  21. 2.639 km W of Valparaíso, Chile · 3443 days ago · 22 km deep · 65 km away
  22. 5.645 km W of Valparaíso, Chile · 3443 days ago · 20 km deep · 73 km away · felt by 60
  23. 3.849 km W of Valparaíso, Chile · 3443 days ago · 17 km deep · 80 km away
  24. 3.246 km W of Valparaíso, Chile · 3443 days ago · 16 km deep · 75 km away
  25. 2.944 km W of Valparaíso, Chile · 3443 days ago · 18 km deep · 73 km away
  26. 3.448 km W of Valparaíso, Chile · 3443 days ago · 21 km deep · 76 km away
  27. 2.941 km W of Valparaíso, Chile · 3443 days ago · 25 km deep · 78 km away
  28. 2.752 km W of Valparaíso, Chile · 3443 days ago · 23 km deep · 81 km away
  29. 2.747 km W of Valparaíso, Chile · 3443 days ago · 21 km deep · 78 km away
  30. 2.442 km W of Valparaíso, Chile · 3443 days ago · 17 km deep · 72 km away
  31. 2.539 km W of Valparaíso, Chile · 3443 days ago · 17 km deep · 73 km away
  32. 3.947 km W of Valparaíso, Chile · 3443 days ago · 20 km deep · 75 km away
  33. 2.347 km W of Valparaíso, Chile · 3443 days ago · 13 km deep · 80 km away
  34. 3.053 km W of Valparaíso, Chile · 3443 days ago · 18 km deep · 82 km away
  35. 2.555 km W of Valparaíso, Chile · 3443 days ago · 19 km deep · 78 km away
  36. 2.749 km W of Valparaíso, Chile · 3443 days ago · 16 km deep · 77 km away
  37. 2.946 km W of Valparaíso, Chile · 3443 days ago · 19 km deep · 77 km away
  38. 2.964 km W of Valparaíso, Chile · 3443 days ago · 14 km deep · 80 km away
  39. 2.349 km W of Valparaíso, Chile · 3443 days ago · 18 km deep · 76 km away
  40. 2.449 km W of Valparaíso, Chile · 3443 days ago · 19 km deep · 79 km away
  41. 2.951 km W of Valparaíso, Chile · 3443 days ago · 19 km deep · 80 km away
  42. 2.641 km W of Valparaíso, Chile · 3443 days ago · 18 km deep · 70 km away
  43. 3.139 km W of Valparaíso, Chile · 3443 days ago · 20 km deep · 67 km away
  44. 2.652 km W of Valparaíso, Chile · 3443 days ago · 19 km deep · 75 km away
  45. 2.445 km W of Valparaíso, Chile · 3443 days ago · 17 km deep · 80 km away
  46. 2.443 km W of Valparaíso, Chile · 3443 days ago · 19 km deep · 81 km away
  47. 2.342 km W of Valparaíso, Chile · 3443 days ago · 22 km deep · 71 km away
  48. 2.543 km W of Valparaíso, Chile · 3443 days ago · 19 km deep · 70 km away
  49. 2.342 km WNW of Valparaíso, Chile · 3443 days ago · 20 km deep · 66 km away
  50. 2.347 km W of Valparaíso, Chile · 3443 days ago · 22 km deep · 73 km away
  51. 3.039 km W of Valparaíso, Chile · 3443 days ago · 26 km deep · 72 km away
  52. 2.150 km W of Valparaíso, Chile · 3443 days ago · 22 km deep · 78 km away
  53. 4.045 km W of Valparaíso, Chile · 3443 days ago · 21 km deep · 81 km away · felt by 4
  54. 2.549 km W of Valparaíso, Chile · 3443 days ago · 19 km deep · 74 km away
  55. 2.047 km W of Valparaíso, Chile · 3443 days ago · 19 km deep · 77 km away
  56. 2.546 km WNW of Valparaíso, Chile · 3443 days ago · 20 km deep · 63 km away
  57. 4.349 km W of Valparaíso, Chile · 3443 days ago · 18 km deep · 80 km away · felt by 1
  58. 4.548 km W of Valparaíso, Chile · 3443 days ago · 19 km deep · 84 km away · felt by 9
  59. 2.849 km W of Valparaíso, Chile · 3443 days ago · 19 km deep · 82 km away
  60. 2.953 km W of Valparaíso, Chile · 3443 days ago · 22 km deep · 83 km away

The first 60 of 154.

Before

  1. 4.145 km WSW of Illapel, Chile · 3488 days ago · 36 km deep · 75 km away · felt by 1

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From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us20008smr. Read Sun, Sep 27, 2026, 1:35 AM UTC.