M4.3 earthquake 65 km WNW of La Ligua, Chile
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake struck 65 km WNW of La Ligua, Chile on Sun, Jun 2, 2019, 3:49 PM GMT-4 (19:49 UTC), 27 km (17 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M4.7 19 km WNW of Hacienda La Calera, 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 (Mwr, regional moment), light
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2019-06-02 19:49:29 UTC
- Depth
- 26.7 km (16.6 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 32.131° S, 71.817° W
- Region
- Chile
- Felt reports
- 4
- Tsunami flag
- No
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
Did you feel it?
4 people reported to the USGS what they felt; the strongest reported shaking was III, weak shaking.
Fault motion and ground failure
How the rock slipped, from the moment tensor, and the USGS estimate of landslides and liquefaction.
- Faulting
- Oblique reverse
- Moment magnitude
- 4.3 Mwr
- Nodal plane 1
- Strike 304°, dip 32°, rake 32°
- Nodal plane 2
- Strike 187°, dip 74°, rake 118°
How well it is located
Reviewed by a seismologist.
- Location uncertainty
- About 5.2 km horizontally, 4.0 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.04
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 112°
- Stations used
- 44
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 6 in the 60 days after this one and 0 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.719 km WNW of Hacienda La Calera, Chile · 2678 days ago · 55 km deep · 75 km away · felt by 139
- 4.466 km WNW of La Ligua, Chile · 2677 days ago · 30 km deep · 3 km away · felt by 5
- 4.336 km WSW of Salamanca, Chile · 2671 days ago · 50 km deep · 53 km away · felt by 2
- 4.533 km WNW of Illapel, Chile · 2651 days ago · 41 km deep · 72 km away · felt by 1
- 4.148 km WNW of Valparaíso, Chile · 2643 days ago · 26 km deep · 88 km away · felt by 2
- 4.475 km WNW of Illapel, Chile · 2621 days ago · 30 km deep · 73 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us70003uh4. Read Fri, Oct 2, 2026, 5:22 AM UTC.