Chile, May 22, 1960
By:Conner Riggs/Earthquake Project
Location (where was the epicenter?)
60 meters down below the ocean floor about 100 miles off the coast of Chile out in the Pacific
Magnitude/Type of Fault
- 8.3
- In the subduction zone
Primary effects (loss of life, loss of property)
- 486 people died
- 370 homes damaged
Secondary effects (fires, landslides, aftershocks, waterborne illness, tsunamis, etc.)
- Fires
- Small tsunami
- Thirty minutes before the 9.5 earthquake a foreshock shook the area near the towns of Valdivia and Puerta Montt
Is this predicted to happen again in the future? When?
a large earthquake will occur in northern Chile in the future, the difficult thing is we cannot tell when it will occur