Viña del Mar

Earthquakes near Viña del Mar, 1927–2026

From 1927 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 49 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or more within 100 km of Viña del Mar, or 200 km for magnitude 7 and above. 11 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 one earthquake of magnitude 4.5 or more within 100 km of Viña del Mar in the last 30 days.

The latest: magnitude 4.8 on October 12 (23 km SW of San Antonio, Chile).

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What the record holds

The deadliest was not the strongest: a magnitude 7.4 on March 28, 1965 (7 km SSE of La Ligua, Chile), for which NOAA records 400 deaths. 14 earthquakes here in these years are on NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes. NOAA records deaths in 9 of the events here, 685 in all. The ten years with the most magnitude 6+ earthquakes were 1977–1986, with 16 of the 49. 9 came in the 30 days after a magnitude 8 on March 3, 1985 (25 km WSW of Valparaíso, Chile), within 150 km of it. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 5.4 on August 2, 2017 (8 km NNE of Chicureo Abajo, Chile). NOAA lists 5 tsunamis that began within 100 km of Viña del Mar, and 5 from elsewhere that reached it with deaths or a metre of water or more. The highest water NOAA records here was 14.7 m, on February 27, 2010.

The events

  • August 2, 2017Earthquake · M 5.48 km NNE of Chicureo Abajo, Chile · one death (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI
  • September 16, 2015Earthquake · M 8.348 km W of Illapel, Chile · 15 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • February 27, 2010Tsunami · 14.7 m hereCentral ChileNOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • March 28, 1965Earthquake · M 7.47 km SSE of La Ligua, Chile · 400 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • April 6, 1943Earthquake · M 8.145 km NNW of Illapel, Chile · 11 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia

Good to know

  • An event counts for Viña del Mar 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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