List of earthquakes in Chile
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Chile lay in a region which is adjacent to the fast-moving Nazca Plate, and has high tectonic activity. The records for earlier centuries are apparently incomplete.
Of the world's 46 known earthquakes with M ≥ 8.5 since the year 1500, one-third occurred in Chile and are shown in the map to the side. Some virtually have the same epicenters like the 1604 and 1868 (in Arica), the 1730 and 1822 (in Valparaíso), the 1751 and 1835 (in Concepción), and the 1575 and 1837 (in Valdivia).
The strongest known recorded in modern times was also in Chile, the 1960 Valdivia earthquake.
Earthquakes
| Region | Local date |
ṃ | MMI | Depth (km) |
Epicenter | Deaths | Notes | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caldera | 1420-09-01 | 9.4 MS[1][2] | Destructive tsunami in Chile, Hawaii & Japan | |||||
| Concepción | 1570-02-08 | 8.3 MS | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | Destructive tsunami | ||||
| 1575-03-17 | 7.3 MS | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||||
| Valdivia | 1575-12-16 | 8.5 MS | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | Destructive tsunami | ||||
| Offshore Arica | 1604-11-24 | 8.5 MS | 30 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | Destructive tsunami | |||
| Offshore Arica | 1615-09-16 | 7.5[3] MS | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | Moderate tsunami | ||||
| Santiago | 1647-05-13 | 8.5 MS | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |||||
| Concepción | 1657-03-15 | 8.0 MS | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | 40 | Destructive tsunami | |||
| 1681-03-10 | 7.3 MS | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||||
| 1687-07-12 | 7.3 MS | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||||
| Valparaíso | 1730-07-08 | 8.7 MS/9.1 MW[4] | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | 5 | Destructive tsunami | |||
| Valdivia | 1737-12-24 | 7.7 MS | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | Tsunami | ||||
| Concepción | 1751-05-25 | 8.5 MS | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | Moderate tsunami | ||||
| 1796-03-30 | 7.7 MS | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||||
| Copiapó | 1819-04-11 | 8.2–8.5 ṃ | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | Destructive tsunami | ||||
| Valparaíso | 1822-11-19 | 8.5 MS | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | 200 | Moderate tsunami | |||
| 1829-09-26 | 7.0 MS | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||||
| 1831-10-08 | 7.8 MS | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||||
| 1833-09-18 | 7.7 MS | 60 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |||||
| Concepción | 1835-02-20 | 8.5/8.2 MS/M? | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | 500 | Destructive tsunami | |||
| Valdivia | 1837-11-07 | 8.0 MS | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | Moderate tsunami | ||||
| 1847-10-08 | 7.3 MS | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||||
| 1849-12-17 | 7.5 MS | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | Moderate tsunami | |||||
| 1850-12-06 | 7.3 MS | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||||
| 1851-04-02 | 7.1 MS | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||||
| 1859-10-05 | 7.6 MS | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | Moderate tsunami | |||||
| Arica | 1868-08-13 | 9.0/8.5 M?/MS | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | 25,000 | Destructive tsunami, at the time the area was part of Peru. | |||
| 1869-08-24 | 7.5 MS | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | Moderate tsunami | |||||
| 1871-10-05 | 7.3 MS | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | Tsunami | |||||
| Iquique | 1877-05-09 | 8.8 MS/M? | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | 2,385 | Destructive tsunami | |||
| 1878-01-23 | 7.9 MS | 40 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |||||
| 1879-02-02 | 7.3 MS | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||||
| 1880-08-15 | 7.7 MS | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||||
| Valparaíso | 1906-08-16 | 8.2 MW | 25 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | 3,882 | Moderate tsunami | ||
| 1909-06-08 | 7.6 MS | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||||
| 1910-10-04 | 7.3 MS | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||||
| 1911-09-15 | 7.3 MS | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||||
| 1914-01-29 | 8.2 MS | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||||
| 1917-02-14 | 7.0 MS | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||||
| 1918-05-20 | 7.9 MS | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||||
| 1918-12-04 | 8.2 MS | 60 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | Moderate tsunami | ||||
| 1919-03-01 | 7.2 MS | 40 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |||||
| 1919-03-02 | 7.3 MS | 40 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |||||
| 1920-12-10 | 7.4 MS | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||||
| 1922-11-07 | 7.0 MS | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||||
| Vallenar | 1922-11-10 | 8.5 MW | 25 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | 1,000 | Moderate tsunami | ||
| 1923-05-04 | 7.0 MS | 60 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |||||
| 1925-05-15 | 7.1 MS | 50 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |||||
| 1926-04-28 | 7.0 MS | 180 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |||||
| 1927-11-21 | 7.1 MS | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | Moderate tsunami | |||||
| 1928-11-20 | 7.1 MS | 25 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |||||
| Talca | 1928-12-01 | 8.3/7.6 MS/M? | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | 225 | Tsunami | |||
| 1929-10-19 | 7.5 MS | 100 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |||||
| 1931-03-18 | 7.1 MS | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||||
| 1933-02-23 | 7.6 MS | 40 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |||||
| 1936-03-01 | 7.1 MS | 120 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |||||
| 1936-07-13 | 7.3 MS | 60 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |||||
| Chillán | 1939-01-24 | 8.3 Mw | 60 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | 28,000 | |||
| 1939-04-18 | 7.4 MS | 100 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |||||
| 1940-10-11 | 7.0 MS | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||||
| 1942-07-08 | 7.0 MS | 140 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |||||
| 1943-03-14 | 7.2 MS | 150 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |||||
| Ovalle | 1943-04-06 | 8.2 MW | 55 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | 25 | Tsunami | ||
| 1943-12-01 | 7.0 MS | 100 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |||||
| 1945-07-13 | 7.1 MS | 100 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |||||
| 1946-08-02 | 7.9 MS | 50 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |||||
| 1949-04-19 | 7.3 MS | 70 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |||||
| 1949-04-25 | 7.3 MS | 110 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |||||
| 1949-05-29 | 7.0 MS | 100 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |||||
| Tierra del Fuego | 1949-12-17 | 7.8 MS | VIII | 30 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found./Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.[5] | [5] | ||
| 1949-12-17 | 7.8 MS | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||||
| 1950-01-29 | 7.0 MS | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||||
| Calama | 1950-12-09 | 8.3 MS | 100 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||
| 1953-05-06 | 7.6 MS | 60 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |||||
| 1953-12-06 | 7.4 MS | 128 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |||||
| 1954-02-08 | 7.7 MS | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||||
| 1955-04-19 | 7.1 MS | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | Tsunami | |||||
| 1956-01-08 | 7.1 MS | 11 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |||||
| 1956-12-17 | 7.0 MS | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||||
| 1957-07-29 | 7.0 MS | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||||
| 1959-06-13 | 7.5 MS | 83 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |||||
| Concepción | 1960-05-21 | 7.9/7.3 M?/MS | X | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | 125 | |||
| 1960-05-22 | 7.3 MS | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||||
| Valdivia | 1960-05-22 | 9.5 Mw | XII | 33 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | 1,655 | Destructive tsunami, strongest earthquake in recorded history. | |
| 1960-06-19 | 7.3 MS | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | ||||||
| 1960-11-01 | 7.4 MS | 55 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |||||
| 1961-07-13 | 7.0 MS | 40 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |||||
| 1962-02-14 | 7.3 MS | 45 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |||||
| 1962-08-03 | 7.1 MS | 107 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |||||
| Taltal | 1965-02-23 | 7.0 MS | 36 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | 1 | |||
| La Ligua | 1965-03-28 | 7.4 MS | 68 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | 400 | |||
| 1966-12-28 | 7.8 MS | 23 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |||||
| 1967-03-13 | 7.3 MS | 33 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |||||
| 1967-12-21 | 7.5 MS | 33 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |||||
| 1971-06-17 | 7.0 MS | 76 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |||||
| Illapel | 1971-07-08 | 7.5 MS | 40 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | 90 | Moderate tsunami | ||
| 1974-08-18 | 7.1 MS | 36 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |||||
| 1975-05-10 | 7.7 MS | 6 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |||||
| 1976-11-29 | 7.3 MS | 82 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |||||
| 1979-08-03 | 7.0 MS | 49 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |||||
| 1981-10-16 | 7.5 MS | 33 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |||||
| 1983-10-04 | 7.3 MS | 14 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |||||
| Algarrobo | 1985-03-03 | 8.0 Mw | VIII | 33 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | 177 | Tsunami | |
| Rapel Lake | 1985-04-08 | 7.5 MS | 37 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | 1 | |||
| Iquique | 1987-03-05 | 7.3 MS | 62 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | Tsunami | |||
| 1987-08-08 | 7.1 MS | 42 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |||||
| Antofagasta | 1995-07-30 | 8.0 MW | 47 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | 3 | Tsunami | ||
| Punitaqui | 1997-10-15 | 7.1 MW | VIII | 56 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | 8 | ||
| Near coast of northern Chile | 1998-01-30 | 7.1 M? | VII | 42 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | 1 | Minor damage to older buildings | |
| Tarapacá | 2005-06-13 | 7.8 MW | VII | 108/117.2 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found./Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | 11 | Felt as far away as Santiago, Chile and Brasília, Brazil | |
| Aisén Fjord | 2007-04-21 | 6.2 Mw | VII | 25 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | 10 | ||
| Tocopilla | 2007-11-14 | 7.7 MW | VIII | 47.7/40 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | 2 | Felt at São Paulo, Brazil | |
| Maule, Biobío | 2010-02-27 | 8.8 MW | IX | 30/35 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | 525 | Destructive tsunami | |
| Pichilemu | 2010-03-11 | 6.9 Mw | VII | 33.1 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | 1 | [6][7] | |
| Araucanía | 2011-01-02 | 7.1 Mw | VI | 25.1 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | [8] | ||
| Talca | 2012-03-25 | 7.1 Mw | VIII | 40.7 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | 1 | [9] | |
| Vallenar | 2013-01-30 | 6.8 Mw | VI | 45.0 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | 1 | [10] | |
| Iquique | 2014-03-16 | 7.0 Mw | VI | 20.6 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | Tsunami | ||
| Iquique | 2014-04-01 | 8.2 Mw | VIII | 25 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | 7 | Tsunami | [11] |
| Iquique | 2014-04-01 | 7.5 Mw | VIII | 26.8 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |||
| Iquique | 2014-04-01 | 7.0 Mw | VI | 29.7 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |||
| Iquique | 2014-04-02 | 7.7 Mw | IX | 22.4 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | Tsunami | ||
| Easter Island | 2014-10-08 | 7.0 Mw | I | 16.5 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | Tsunami | ||
| Illapel, Coquimbo | 2015-09-16 | 8.3 Mw | IX | 20 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | 15 | Tsunami | |
| Quellón | 2016-12-25 | 7.6 Mw | VIII | 39 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | Tsunami | [12] | |
| Coquimbo | 2019-01-20 | 6.7 Mw | VIII | 63 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | 2 | ||
| Los Lagos | 2019-09-26 | 6.1 Mw | IV | 129 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | 1 | ||
| Maule | 2019-09-29 | 6.8 Mw | VI | 11 | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | 1 | ||
| The inclusion criteria for adding events are based on WikiProject Earthquakes' notability guideline that was developed for stand alone articles. The principles described are also applicable to lists. In summary, only damaging, injurious, or deadly events should be recorded. | ||||||||
See also
References
- ↑ L. Guzmán: Encuentran registros de megaterremoto ocurrido hace seis siglos en el norte de Chile, El Mercurio, 2019-02-14.
- ↑ Manuel Abad, Tatiana Izquierdo, Miguel Cáceres, Enrique Bernárdez and Joaquín Rodríguez‐Vidal (2018). Coastal boulder deposit as evidence of an ocean‐wide prehistoric tsunami originated on the Atacama Desert coast (northern Chile). Sedimentology. Publication: december, 13th, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12570
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ : Significant Earthquake, NOAA, 2019-10-03.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Argentina's seismic prevention institute. Listado de Terremotos Históricos Archived 2012-03-16 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.[permanent dead link]
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- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Script error: No such module "In lang". Servicio sismológico Universidad de Chile, Sismos importantes o destructivos desde 1570
- Historic World Earthquakes: Chile, United States Geological Survey
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