An earthquake hits Valdivia

When

16 Dec 1575

Kind

Event

Coordinates

39.80° S, 73.20° W

Description

An earthquake hits Valdivia.

Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, 1575 Valdivia earthquake.

1575 earthquake centered in Valdivia, colonial Chile

The 1575 Valdivia earthquake occurred at 14:30 local time on December 16. It had an estimated magnitude of 8.5 of on the surface-wave magnitude scale and an estimated magnitude of 9.0+ on the Moment magnitude scale and led to the flood of Valdivia, Chile.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Die südchilenische Stadt Valdivia wird durch ein Erdbeben zerstört”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “un terremoto de 8,5 a 9,0 grados sacude la ciudad chilena de Valdivia provocando un tsunami”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page