Liquiñe is a town in Liquiñe Valley , in Panguipulli commune, Valdivia Province , Chile . The area around the village is home to South America's densest collection of hot springs . There are literally hundred of sites where geothermal waters flow up out of the earth. The water emerges from the ground at roughly 176°F (80°C). Therefore, the water must be cooled before being fed into pools for bathing.
5-453: The Liquiñe Hot Springs feature geothermally-heated mineral water. Geologically the town is crossed by the north-south Liquiñe-Ofqui Fault . The road to Carirriñe Pass goes through Liquiñe, allowing transit to and from Junín de los Andes in Argentina . However, this mountain pass is only open during the summer months of January and February. This Los Ríos Region location article
10-484: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Liqui%C3%B1e-Ofqui Fault The Liquiñe-Ofqui Fault is major geological fault that runs a length of roughly 1,200 kilometres (750 mi) in a NNE-SSW orientation and exhibits current seismicity. It is located in the Chilean Northern Patagonian Andes . It is a dextral intra-arc strike-slip fault . Most large stratovolcanoes of
15-577: The 1960 Valdivia earthquake . This same portion slipped again in April 2007, causing earthquakes in Aysén Fjord , triggering landslides and a local tsunami . The fault name was coined by Francisco Hervé , I. Fuenzalida, E. Araya and A. Solano in 1979. The existence of the fault was first inferred by Chilean government agent Hans Steffen around 1900, who referred to it as a "tectonic furrow" (Spanish: surco tectónico ). This tectonics article
20-684: The Southern Volcanic Zone of the Andes are aligned by the fault which allows for the movement of magma and hydrothermal fluids. The fault crosses several transverse faults including the Mocha-Villarrica Fault Zone (MVFZ) and the Biobío-Aluminé Fault Zone . The fault has had periods of ductile deformation associated to pluton emplacement , be it either at great depths or by shallow intrusions . The forces that move
25-463: The fault are derivative of the oblique subduction offshore Chile's coast. This leads to partition of deformation between the subduction zone, the fore-arc and the intra-arc region where the fault lies. There is evidence that the fault broke as a M w 9.07 subevent in the 1960 Valdivia earthquake. A portion of the fault in Aysén Region likely slipped (moved) in an aftershock a few weeks after
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