Earthquake — Chile: Central

When

28 Mar 1965

Kind

Earthquake

Magnitude

7.3

Where

Chile

Coordinates

32.40° S, 71.20° W

Deaths

400

Damage musd

125

Depth km

61

Earthquake and mining disaster in Chile

The 1965 La Ligua earthquake struck near La Ligua in Aconcagua Province, Chile, about 140 km (87 mi) from the capital Santiago on Sunday, March 28 at 12:33 local time. The moment magnitude (Mw) 7.4–7.6 earthquake killed 400–500 people and inflicted US$1 billion in damage.

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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 “At least 400 are killed or missing after an earthquake triggered a series of dam failures in La Ligua, Chile”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en Chile, un terremoto de 7,6 azota la zona central del país, dejando 500 fallecidos”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page