Earthquake — Colombia: Off Shore, Pacific Ocean

When

12 Dec 1979

Kind

Earthquake

Magnitude

8.1

Where

Colombia

Coordinates

1.55° N, 79.28° W

Deaths

600

Injuries

20000

Damage musd

8

Houses destroyed

10000

Intensity mmi

9

Depth km

23

Earthquake near Colombia and Peru

An earthquake occurred at 02:59 local time on 12 December 1979, with the epicenter just offshore from the border between Ecuador and Colombia, near the port city of Tumaco. With a moment magnitude of 8.2 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), it triggered a major tsunami, which was responsible for most of the estimated 300–600 deaths. The hardest hit area was Colombia's Nariño Department.

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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 8.2 Tumaco earthquake shakes Colombia and Ecuador with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing 300–600, and generating a large tsunami”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en Colombia se registra un fuerte terremoto de 8,2 que provoca un gran tsunami con olas de 5 metros”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

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