What the records say
- When
- 27 Feb 2010
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 6.3
- Where
- Argentina
- Coordinates
- 24.84° S, 65.46° W
- Deaths
- 2
- Injuries
- 2
- Intensity mmi
- 7
- Depth km
- 15
2010 Salta earthquake
Earthquake in Argentina
The 2010 Salta earthquake occurred on February 27 at 12:45:36 local time in Salta Province, Argentina and had a magnitude of 6.3. It occurred less than 12 hours after the far larger magnitude 8.8 Chile earthquake, which killed 525 people. It was initially thought to be an aftershock of the Chile earthquake, but scientists later established that the earthquakes were unrelated.
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- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Salta earthquake”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Otro terremoto de 6,3 afecta la ciudad argentina de Salta dejando 2 muertos y decenas de heridos”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page