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M5.1 Earthquake Strikes off Coquimbo, Chile

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A single black cylindrical isolator under a concrete column head in a wide, low basement lit by spotlights, a concrete ledge across the foreground
A base isolator of the kind built under a building to decouple it from ground shaking (illustrative)"Earthquake protector of Showakan, TPG" by Miyuki Meinaka, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Two earthquakes struck off Coquimbo, Chile, six minutes apart late Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026, local time, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said. The larger, magnitude 5.1, struck at 9:30 p.m. Chile time (00:30 UTC Oct. 14, 2026), centered about 93 kilometers north-northwest of Coquimbo at a depth of about 22 kilometers.

A second quake, magnitude 5.0, followed at 9:36 p.m. Chile time (00:36 UTC) about 98 kilometers northwest of Coquimbo and 10 kilometers deep, USGS said. USGS had received two public reports of shaking for the first quake and one for the second, the only signs of impact in its record as of Oct. 14, 2026.

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