Strong Quake Strikes ATACAMA, CHILE
Posted by feww on March 27, 2010
Earthquake Measuring up to 6.5Mw Strikes ATACAMA, CHILE
Strong earthquake measuring up to 6.5Mw struck ATACAMA, Northern Chile at a depth of about 45km on Friday, March 26, 2010 at 14:52 UTC.
There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.
Earthquake Location
The shock occurred about 62km (38 miles) north of the epicenter of a magnitude 8.5 quake that struck immediately north of Vallenar at a depth of 25 km on November 11 1922, AND 900km north of the 8.8Mw quake that struck near the coast of Chile on February 2010, which triggered a deadly tsunami that paralyzed the country and left at least 507 people dead and up to a million homeless.
Summary of Earthquake Details:
- Maximum Magnitude: 6.5Mw (Fire-Earth Estimate)
- Region ATACAMA, CHILE
- Date time 2010-03-26 at 14:52:05.9 UTC
- Location 27.99ºS ; 70.81ºW
- Depth: ~ 45km
- Distances
- 81 km SW Copiapó (pop 129,280 ; local time 10:52 2010-03-26)
- 65 km NW Vallenar (pop 44,895 ; local time 10:52 2010-03-26)
- 225 km NNE of Coquimbo, Chile
- 605 km N of SANTIAGO, Chile
Location Map – USGS – Enhanced by FEWW.
Political Map of Chile with the earthquake location marked.
Historic Earthquakes in Chile
- 1730 07 08 – Valparasio, Chile – M 8.7
- 1835 02 20 – Concepcion, Chile – M 8.2 Fatalities 500
- 1868 08 13 – Arica, Peru (now Chile) – M 9.0 Fatalities 25,000
- 1877 05 10 – Offshore Tarapaca, Chile – M 8.3 Fatalities 34
- 1906 08 17 – Valparaiso, Chile – M 8.2 Fatalities 3,882
- 1922 11 11 – Chile-Argentina Border – M 8.5
- 1928 12 01 – Talca, Chile – M 7.6 Fatalities 225
- 1939 01 25 – Chillan, Chile – M 7.8 Fatalities 28,000
- 1943 04 06 – Illapel – Salamanca, Chile – M 8.2 Fatalities 25
- 1960 05 21 – Arauco Peninsula, Chile – M 7.9
- 1960 05 22 – Chile – M 9.5 Fatalities 1,655
- 1965 02 23 – Taltal, Chile – M 7.0 Fatalities 1
- 1965 03 28 – La Ligua, Chile – M 7.4 Fatalities 400
- 1971 07 09 – Valparaiso region, Chile – M 7.5 Fatalities 90
- 1985 03 03 – offshore Valparaiso, Chile – M 7.8 Fatalities 177
- 1998 01 30 – Near Coast of Northern Chile – M 7.1
- 2002 06 18 – Chile-Argentina Border Region – M 6.6
- 2003 06 20 – Near the Coast of Central Chile – M 6.8
- 2004 05 03 – Bio-Bio, Chile – M 6.6
- 2005 06 13 – Tarapaca, Chile – M 7.8 Fatalities 11
- 2007 11 14 – Antofagasta, Chile – M 7.7 Fatalities 2
- 2007 12 16 – Antofagasta, Chile – M 6.7
- 2008 02 04 – Tarapaca, Chile – M 6.3
- 2009 11 13 – Offshore Tarapaca, Chile – M 6.5
- 2010 02 27 – Offshore Maule, Chile – M 8.8 Fatalities 507
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