Liquiñe-Ofqui Fault

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The Liquiñe-Ofqui Fault is major geological fault^[1] that runs a length of roughly 1000 km in a north-south direction. It is located in the Chilean northern patagonean Andes.

As the name implies it runs from the Liquiñe hot springs in the north to the Ofqui Isthmus in the south, where the Antarctic Plate meets the Nazca Plate and the South American Plate in a triple junction. A large parth of the fault runs along the Moraleda Channel.

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