Chiclayo

Earthquakes near Chiclayo through history

From 1900 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 7 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or more within 100 km of Chiclayo, or 200 km for magnitude 7 and above. One stands far above the rest: an estimated magnitude 8.6 on February 14, 1619 (Trujillo, Piura, Santa). The next strongest reached 7.6.

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The last 30 days · as of

USGS recorded no earthquake of magnitude 4.5 or more within 100 km of Chiclayo in the last 30 days.

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What the record holds

It was also the deadliest: NOAA records 350 deaths for it. NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 5 here, back to 1619. NOAA records deaths in 4 of the events here, 447 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 7.6 on November 20, 1960 (103 km WSW of Mórrope, Peru). NOAA’s record here begins on February 14, 1619 with an earthquake (Trujillo, Piura, Santa). It grows thinner going back: 3 of the 5 significant earthquakes NOAA lists here are from 1927 on. NOAA lists one tsunami that began within 100 km of Chiclayo, and one from elsewhere that reached it with deaths or a metre of water or more. The highest water NOAA records here was 9 m, on November 20, 1960. The deadliest, on November 20, 1960, killed 16 people here by NOAA’s runup records.

The events

  • November 20, 1960Earthquake · M 7.6103 km WSW of Mórrope, Peru · 66 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • November 20, 1960Tsunami · 9 m hereN. Peru · 16 deaths here (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • February 14, 1619Earthquake · M 8.6 (est.)Trujillo, Piura, Santa · 350 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI

Good to know

  • An event counts for Chiclayo when it began within 100 km of its centre, or 200 km for an earthquake of magnitude 7 or more. Damage can reach further.
  • USGS counts here start at magnitude 6: the catalogue’s smaller quakes thin out going back, where few instruments listened.
  • NOAA lists significant events only: earthquakes that killed, did about $1 million of damage, reached magnitude 7.5 or intensity X, or raised a tsunami, and eruptions and tsunamis by like measures. Magnitudes before 1900 are its estimates from written accounts.
  • Deaths are NOAA’s total for each event, wherever people died, its tsunami and fires included. A tsunami counts the dead its runup records give for this place: NOAA’s total for a tsunami includes its source quake’s.
  • A tsunami from elsewhere counts where one of its runups killed or rose a metre or more.
  • Counted to October 19, 2026, as is the map. The last 30 days ask USGS again.

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