Earthquakes near Temuco through history

It was also the deadliest: NOAA records 2,226 deaths for it. NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 10 here, back to 1562. NOAA records deaths in 8 of the events here, 3,702 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 6.1 on June 15, 2004 (15 km S of Carahue, Chile). NOAA’s record here begins on October 28, 1562 with an earthquake. It grows thinner going back: 7 of the 10 significant earthquakes NOAA lists here are from 1927 on. NOAA lists 3 tsunamis that began within 100 km of Temuco, and one from elsewhere that reached it with deaths or a metre of water or more. The highest water NOAA records here was 20.1 m, on February 27, 2010. NOAA lists 6 significant eruptions of 3 volcanoes within 100 km of Temuco. The largest was Villarrica on January 1, 1949, at 3 on the volcanic explosivity index. It killed 54 people by NOAA’s count.

• February 27, 2010Tsunami · 20.1 m hereCentral ChileNOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• June 15, 2004Earthquake · M 6.115 km S of Carahue, ChileUSGS · NOAA NCEI
• May 22, 1960Earthquake · M 9.51960 Great Chilean Earthquake (Valdivia Earthquake) · 2,226 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• January 1, 1949Eruption · VEI 3Villarrica · 54 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• December 16, 1575Earthquake · M 8.5 (est.)Valdivia · 1,321 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI
• October 28, 1562Earthquake · M 8.0 (est.)NOAA NCEI

• An event counts for Temuco 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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