Earthquake — Chile: Off North Coast

When

10 May 1877

Kind

Earthquake

Magnitude

8.3

Where

Chile

Coordinates

21.50° S, 70.50° W

Deaths

2385

Damage musd

1.6

Intensity mmi

11

Depth km

40

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

Earthquake in Chile

The 1877 Iquique earthquake occurred at 21:16 local time on 9 May. It had a magnitude of 8.5 on the surface-wave magnitude scale. Other estimates of its magnitude have been as high as 8.9 Mw and 9.0 Mt. It had a maximum intensity of XI (Extreme) on the Mercalli intensity scale and triggered a devastating tsunami. A total of 2,385 people died, mainly in Fiji from 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 “Iquique Earthquake and tsunami: An earthquake of at least magnitude 8.5 Ms occurs on the west coast of South America, killing 2,541 around the Pacific Rim”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Beim Erdbeben von Iquique und dem darauf folgenden Tsunami kommen 2541 Menschen ums Leben”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en la ciudad de Iquique (norte de Chile) sucede un terremoto de 8.9, que genera un tsunami que deja más de 2000 muertos”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

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