Temuco

Earthquakes near Temuco, 1927–2026

From 1927 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 21 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or more within 100 km of Temuco, or 200 km for magnitude 7 and above. One stands far above the rest: a magnitude 9.5 on May 22, 1960 (1960 Great Chilean Earthquake (Valdivia Earthquake)). The next strongest reached 8.1.

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The last 30 days · as of

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

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What the record holds

It was also the deadliest: NOAA records 2,226 deaths for it. 7 earthquakes here in these years are on NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes. NOAA records deaths in 7 of the events here, 2,381 in all. The ten years with the most magnitude 6+ earthquakes were 1957–1966, with 12 of the 21. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 6.1 on June 15, 2004 (15 km S of Carahue, Chile). NOAA lists 2 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.

The events

Good to know

  • 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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