What the records say
- When
- 20 Feb 1835
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 8.2
- Where
- Chile
- Coordinates
- 36.83° S, 73.03° W
- Deaths
- 53
- Injuries
- 500
- Missing
- 30
- Intensity mmi
- 11
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
1835 Concepción earthquake
Earthquake in Chile
The 1835 Concepción earthquake was an earthquake that occurred near the neighboring cities of Concepción and Talcahuano in Chile on 20 February at 11:30 local time, and had an estimated magnitude of about 8.5 Mw. The earthquake triggered a tsunami which caused the destruction of Talcahuano. A total of at least 50 people died from the effects of the earthquake and the tsunami.
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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 “1835 Concepción earthquake: Concepción, Chile, is destroyed by an earthquake”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “la ciudad de Concepción (Chile) es destruida por un terremoto de 8,5 y un tsunami”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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