The 2010 Chile earthquake and tsunami was a megathrust earthquake of magnitude 8.8 Mww that struck off the coast of the Maule Region of central Chile on 27 February 2010 at 03:34 local time. One of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded, it lasted approximately three minutes and was felt across six Chilean regions home to roughly 80 percent of the country's population. It is the largest earthquake to strike Chile since the magnitude 9.5 1960 Valdivia earthquake and the strongest worldwide between the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake.