Chile earthquakes

M6.7 earthquake 10 km SSW of Coquimbo, Chile

A magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck 10 km SSW of Coquimbo, Chile on Sat, Jan 19, 2019, 10:32 PM GMT-3 (01:32 UTC), 63 km (39 mi) below the surface.

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The earthquake

Magnitude: 6.7 (mww), strong
Local time: Sat, Jan 19, 2019, 10:32 PM GMT-3
UTC: 2019-01-20 01:32:52 UTC
Depth: 63.0 km (39.1 mi), shallow
Epicenter: 30.040° S, 71.382° W
Region: Chile
Felt reports: 790
Strongest shaking: VIII, severe shaking
PAGER alert: Orange
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 10388), matched to this event by time and place.

Deaths: 2
Damage: $100 million
Houses damaged: 1,061

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.

NOAA’s full record of this earthquake

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: 32.5% of gravity
Peak ground velocity: 3.6 cm/s
Map: Automatic

USGS ShakeMap: estimated shaking intensity around the epicenter — Estimated shaking intensity. Map: USGS ShakeMap.

Did you feel it?

790 people reported to the USGS what they felt; the strongest reported shaking was VIII, severe 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: Orange: significant damage and deaths likely, a national response

Deaths: estimated chance of each range
Range	Chance
Under 1	2%
1 to 10	21%
10 to 100	48%
100 to 1,000	26%
1,000 to 10,000	3%
10,000 to 100,000	Under 1%
100,000 to 10,000,000	Under 1%

Economic losses: estimated chance of each range
Range, million USD	Chance
Under 1	Under 1%
1 to 10	Under 1%
10 to 100	10%
100 to 1,000	49%
1,000 to 10,000	37%
10,000 to 100,000	4%
100,000 to 10,000,000	Under 1%

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: 6.7 Mww
Nodal plane 1: Strike 187°, dip 42°, rake -102°
Nodal plane 2: Strike 23°, dip 50°, rake -79°
Landslide alert: Yellow
Liquefaction alert: Green

How well it is located

Reviewed by a seismologist.

Location uncertainty: About 5.8 km horizontally, 1.8 km in depth
Magnitude uncertainty: ±0.04
Depth from: From modeling of broad-band P waveforms
Station coverage gap: 22°
Stations used: 143

Nearest places

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

Nearby

Within 100 km, magnitude 3.7 and up: 29 in the 60 days after this one and 3 in the 30 days before it.

After

Before

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Sources

From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us2000j6hy (also filed as at00pllwap, pt19020000, iscgem614617823). Read Wed, Sep 30, 2026, 4:45 AM UTC.