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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