Earthquake — Chile: South Central

When

17 Aug 1906

Kind

Earthquake

Magnitude

8.2

Where

Chile

Coordinates

33.00° S, 72.00° W

Deaths

4000

Damage musd

100

Intensity mmi

11

Depth km

25

8.2 Mw earthquake in Chile

The 1906 Valparaíso earthquake occurred on August 16 at 19:55 local time. Its epicenter was offshore of the Valparaíso Region of Chile, and its magnitude was estimated at 8.2 Mw. This earthquake occurred thirty minutes after an 8.35 Mw earthquake near the Aleutian Islands, Alaska.

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA · Read the article

• NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “1906 Valparaíso earthquake: A magnitude 8.2 earthquake in Valparaíso, Chile leaves nearly 4,000 dead and approximately 20,000 injured”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en Valparaíso, Chile, un terremoto de 8,2 destruye la mayoría de la ciudad, dejando un saldo de 3.800 muertos”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

• Tsunami — Central Chile17 Aug 1906 · Tsunami