What the records say
- When
- 21 May 1960
- Kind
- Tsunami
- Coordinates
- 37.87° S, 73.24° W
- Max water height m
- 0.5
- Source quake magnitude
- 8.2
- Runups
- 7
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
1960 Concepción earthquakes
Earthquakes in Chile
The 1960 Concepción earthquakes were a succession of three destructive earthquakes that happened between 21 and 22 May 1960. They formed part of the foreshock sequence for the 1960 Valdivia earthquake, the largest recorded earthquake in history.
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The source
- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
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