What the records say
- When
- 31 Jan 1906
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 8.8
- Where
- Ecuador
- Coordinates
- 0.95° N, 79.37° W
- Deaths
- 1000
- Intensity mmi
- 9
- Depth km
- 20
1906 Ecuador–Colombia earthquake
Offshore earthquake west of Ecuador and Colombia in January 1906
The 1906 Ecuador–Colombia earthquake occurred at 10:36:10 (UTC+5) on Wednesday, January 31, 1906, off the coast of Ecuador, near Esmeraldas. The earthquake had a moment magnitude of 8.8 and triggered a destructive tsunami that caused at least 500 casualties on the coast of Colombia.
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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 Ecuador–Colombia earthquake (8.8 on the Moment magnitude scale), and associated tsunami, cause at least 500 deaths”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Se registra un fuerte terremoto de 8,8 frente a las costas de Ecuador que provoca un destructivo tsunami que deja 1500 víctimas”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page