What the records say
- When
- 11 Mar 2010
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 6.9
- Where
- Chile
- Coordinates
- 34.29° S, 71.89° W
- Depth km
- 11
2010 Pichilemu earthquakes
Intraplate earthquakes in Chile
The 2010 Pichilemu earthquakes, also known as the Libertador O'Higgins earthquakes, were a pair of intraplate earthquakes measuring 6.9 and 7.0 Mw that struck Chile's O'Higgins Region on 11 March 2010 about 16 minutes apart. The earthquakes were centred 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) northwest of the city of Pichilemu.
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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 “As Sebastián Piñera is inaugurated as the new President of Chile, a new earthquake —6.9 and 6.7 magnitude—strike 40 km west of Pichilemu”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “En el sur de Chile se registran dos nuevos terremotos de 6,9 y 7,0, dejando 1 fallecido y varios daños materiales”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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