Nearly all of the territory of Chile is subject to earthquakes , arising from strains in the subducting Nazca and South American Plates or shallow strike-slip faults . The subduction zone along the Chilean coast produced the most powerful earthquake ever recorded , the 1960 Valdivia earthquake . Some earthquakes which occurred near the epicentre of the 11 March 2010 event are the 1985 Algarrobo and Rapel Lake earthquakes
1960 Valdivia earthquake
1960 Valdivia earthquake
2010 Pichilemu earthquake