Earthquake — Chile: Central Coast, San Antonio, Valparaiso

When

3 Mar 1985

Kind

Earthquake

Magnitude

8.0

Where

Chile

Coordinates

33.13° S, 71.71° W

Deaths

180

Injuries

2575

Damage musd

1500

Intensity mmi

8

Depth km

40

Severe earthquake centered in Valparaíso Region, Chile

A megathrust earthquake measuring 8.0 Mw struck just offshore the Greater Valparaíso area of Central Chile on 3 March 1985. The event followed a ten-day period of moderate and non-destructive foreshocks and left at least 177 people dead and about 2,500 injured.

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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 “The 8.0 Algarrobo earthquake hits Santiago and Valparaíso, Chile, leaving 177 dead, 2,575 injured, 142,489 houses destroyed”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en la zona central de Chile, se registra un fuerte terremoto de 8,0 que deja 177 víctimas mortales”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

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