What the records say
- When
- 20 Nov 1960
- Kind
- Tsunami
- Coordinates
- 6.80° S, 80.70° W
- Deaths
- 66
- Injuries
- 2
- Damage musd
- 0.55
- Max water height m
- 9
- Source quake magnitude
- 6.8
- Runups
- 19
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
November 1960 Peru earthquake
Earthquake of magnitude 6.7 to 7.8
The November 1960 Peru earthquake occurred offshore northern Peru on November 20 at 17:02 local time. The magnitude of the earthquake was Ms 6.75 by using the conventional surface-wave magnitude measurement within a shorter duration of ~20 s. However, there is a large discrepancy between the magnitudes in Ms and Mw in this earthquake.
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The source
- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page