What the records say
- When
- 9 Dec 1950
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 8.0
- Where
- Chile
- Coordinates
- 23.50° S, 67.50° W
- Deaths
- 1
- Intensity mmi
- 7
- Depth km
- 100
1950 Calama earthquake
Earthquake in Chile
The 1950 Calama earthquake occurred near the Argentina–Chile border with an epicenter near Calama, Chile in the Atacama Desert on December 9. The event had a hypocenter depth of 113.9 km, beneath the Caichinque volcanic complex. It measured magnitude Mw 8.2 on the moment magnitude scale, making it the largest intermediate-depth earthquake ever recorded on Chilean soil.
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The source
- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
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