Earthquake — Argentina: San Juan Province

When

15 Jan 1944

Kind

Earthquake

Magnitude

6.9

Where

Argentina

Coordinates

31.50° S, 68.49° W

Deaths

10000

Injuries

35000

Damage musd

100

Intensity mmi

9

Depth km

15

Earthquake in Argentina

The 1944 San Juan earthquake took place on 15 January in the province of San Juan, in the center-west area of Argentina, a region highly prone to seismic events. This moderate to strong earthquake destroyed a large part of San Juan, the provincial capital, and killed 10,000 of its inhabitants, 10 percent of its population at the time. One third of the province population became homeless.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “1944 San Juan earthquake: An earthquake hits San Juan, Argentina, killing an estimated 10,000 people, in the worst natural disaster in Argentina's history”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “séisme de San Juan, en Argentine”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en la provincia de San Juan (Argentina), se produce un terremoto de 7,0, que destruye el 90 % de sus edificaciones y deja un saldo de 10 000 muertos”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page