M4.3 earthquake 63 km WNW of La Ligua, Chile
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake struck 63 km WNW of La Ligua, Chile on Thu, Jan 17, 2019, 7:14 AM GMT-3 (10:14 UTC), 10 km (6 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M4.8 67 km WNW of Illapel, Chile. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 4.3 (mb), light
- Local time
- UTC
- 2019-01-17 10:14:54 UTC
- Depth
- 10.0 km (6.2 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 32.229° S, 71.846° 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 4.8 km horizontally, 2.0 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.38
- Depth from
- Operator assigned
- Station coverage gap
- 185°, poorly surrounded by stations
- Stations used
- 32
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 7 in the 60 days after this one and 1 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.5Off the coast of Coquimbo, Chile · 2808 days ago · 12 km deep · 64 km away
- 4.684 km WNW of La Ligua, Chile · 2807 days ago · 10 km deep · 22 km away
- 4.142 km W of Illapel, Chile · 2803 days ago · 42 km deep · 76 km away
- 4.2109 km W of Illapel, Chile · 2802 days ago · 10 km deep · 73 km away
- 3.455 km NNW of Valparaíso, Chile · 2801 days ago · 35 km deep · 38 km away · felt by 1
- 4.321 km WSW of Illapel, Chile · 2800 days ago · 47 km deep · 72 km away
- 4.867 km WNW of Illapel, Chile · 2795 days ago · 27 km deep · 96 km away · felt by 2
Before
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us2000j4zn. Read Tue, Sep 29, 2026, 2:12 PM UTC.