1575 Valdivia earthquake

1575 earthquake centered in Valdivia, colonial Chile 1575 Valdivia earthquake yes December 16, 1575 14:30 South America 8.5 s y9.0+ w y -39.8 -73.2 type:event inline,title Valdivia, Chile Megathrust The 1575 Valdivia earthquake occurred at 14:30 local time on December 16.https://www.csn.uchile.cl/sismologia/grandes-terremotos-en-chile/ Sismos Importantes y/o Destructivos (1570 – a la Fecha) ( Magnitud Ms mayor o igual a 7.0 ) Servicio Sismológico Universidad de Chile Spanish 15 November 2021 It had an estimated magnitude of 8.5 of on the surface-wave magnitude scale and an estimated magnitude of 9.0+Hocking Emma Geological evidence of an unreported historical Chilean tsunami reveals more frequent inundation Communications Earth & Environment 2021 2 245 245 10.1038/s43247-021-00319-z 2021ComEE...2..245H 245010455 free on the Moment magnitude scale and led to the flood of Valdivia, Chile. Pedro Mariño de Lobera, who was corregidor of Valdivia by that time, wrote that the waters of the river opened like the Red Sea, one part flowing upstream and one downstream. Mariño de Lobera also evacuated the city until the dam at Laguna de Anigua (nowadays Riñihue Lake) burst. At that moment he wrote that, while many Native people died, no Spaniards did, as the settlement of Valdivia was moved temporarily away from the riverside. The effects of this earthquake are similar to the 1960 Valdivia earthquake, the largest ever recorded on earth, which also caused ensuing Riñihuazo flooding. These similarities show that large earthquakes have a pattern that span over several centuries.Cisternas Marco Atwater Brian Brian Atwater Torrejon Fernando Sawai Yuki Machuca Gonzalo Lagos Marcelo Eipert Annaliese Youlton Cristian Slagado Ignacio Kamataki Takanobu Shishkura Masanobu Rajendran C.P. C. P. Rajendran Malik Javed Rizal Yan Husni Muhammad Predecessors of the giant 1960 Chile earthquake Nature 15 September 2005 404–407 http://www.geology.cwu.edu/facstaff/tim/g501/pdf/Cisternas_2005.pdf 437 7057 10.1038/nature03943 16163355 2005Natur.437..404C 4398549 See also List of earthquakes in Chile List of historical earthquakes References https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazel/view/hazards/earthquake/event-more-info/767 Significant Earthquake Information National Geophysical Data Center / World Data Service (NGDC/WDS): NCEI/WDS Global Significant Earthquake Database. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information 1972 30 March 2022 10.7289/V5TD9V7K National Geophysical Data Center External links Epicenter of 1575 Valdivia earthquake | earthquake epicenter- wikimapia.com 1575 Valdivia earthquake Category:1570s earthquakes Category:1570s in the Captaincy General of Chile Category:1575 in South America Category:1575 in the Spanish Empire 1575 Valdivia earthquake Category:1575 in science Category:1570s in the Viceroyalty of Peru