Coquimbo

Earthquakes near Coquimbo through history

From 1900 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 55 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or more within 100 km of Coquimbo, or 200 km for magnitude 7 and above. 7 of them reached magnitude 7 or more; the strongest was a magnitude 8.3 on September 16, 2015 (48 km W of Illapel, Chile).

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The last 30 days · as of

USGS recorded 2 earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more within 100 km of Coquimbo in the last 30 days.

The latest: magnitude 4.6 on October 14 (99 km NW of Coquimbo, Chile). The strongest: magnitude 4.7 on October 14 (94 km NNW of Coquimbo, Chile).

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What the record holds

It was also the deadliest: NOAA records 15 deaths for it. NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 20 here, back to 1604. NOAA records deaths in 8 of the events here, 241 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 6.4 on June 14, 2019 (72 km W of Coquimbo, Chile). NOAA’s record here begins in December 1604 with an earthquake. It grows thinner going back: 12 of the 20 significant earthquakes NOAA lists here are from 1927 on. NOAA lists 8 tsunamis that began within 100 km of Coquimbo, and 9 from elsewhere that reached it with deaths or a metre of water or more. The highest water NOAA records here was 11.4 m, on September 16, 2015. The deadliest here came on November 11, 1922 from a magnitude 8.5 earthquake (Northern Chile): NOAA’s runup records count 200 deaths within 100 km of Coquimbo.

The events

  • June 14, 2019Earthquake · M 6.472 km W of Coquimbo, ChileUSGS · NOAA NCEI
  • September 16, 2015Earthquake · M 8.348 km W of Illapel, Chile · 15 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • September 16, 2015Tsunami · 11.4 m hereCentral Chile · 8 deaths here (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • April 6, 1943Earthquake · M 8.145 km NNW of Illapel, Chile · 11 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • November 11, 1922Tsunami · 4.6 m hereNorthern Chile · 200 deaths here (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • December 1604EarthquakeNOAA NCEI

Good to know

  • An event counts for Coquimbo when it began within 100 km of its centre, or 200 km for an earthquake of magnitude 7 or more. Damage can reach further.
  • USGS counts here start at magnitude 6: the catalogue’s smaller quakes thin out going back, where few instruments listened.
  • NOAA lists significant events only: earthquakes that killed, did about $1 million of damage, reached magnitude 7.5 or intensity X, or raised a tsunami, and eruptions and tsunamis by like measures. Magnitudes before 1900 are its estimates from written accounts.
  • Deaths are NOAA’s total for each event, wherever people died, its tsunami and fires included. A tsunami counts the dead its runup records give for this place: NOAA’s total for a tsunami includes its source quake’s.
  • A tsunami from elsewhere counts where one of its runups killed or rose a metre or more.
  • Counted to October 19, 2026, as is the map. The last 30 days ask USGS again.

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