1687 Peru earthquake

Seismic event October 2024 1687 Peru earthquake yes 20 October 1687 Peru 8.7 Mw type:event dms ithttp://iisee.kenken.go.jp/utsu/index_eng.html Catalog of Damaging Earthquakes in the World (Through 2007) IISEE 1 March 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100306180217/http://iisee.kenken.go.jp/utsu/index_eng.html 6 March 2010 live Peru Yes 5,000 The 1687 Peru earthquake occurred at 11:30 UTC on 20 October 1687. It had an estimated magnitude of 8.4–8.7 and caused severe damage to Lima, Callao and Ica. It triggered a tsunami and overall, about 5,000 people died. Tectonic setting The earthquake occurred along the boundary between the Nazca plate and the South American plate. The earthquake is likely to be a result of thrust faulting, caused by the subduction of the Nazca plate beneath the South American plate. The coastal parts of Peru and Chile have a history of great megathrust earthquakes originating from this plate boundary, such as the 1960 Valdivia earthquake. Damage The port of Pisco was completely destroyed by the tsunami, with at least three ships being swept over the remains of the town.Okal Borrero Synolakis 2006 Characteristics The earthquake was probably followed by another large event further to the south.Okal Borrero Synolakis 2006 A magnitude of 8.7 has been estimated from tsunami runup heights and by comparison with the earthquake of 1974.Beck Nishenko 1990 The tsunami was reported in Japan where it produced runups of tens of metres.Okal Borrero Synolakis 2006 Economic impact Chilean wheat cycle Peruvian wine Chile's history of exporting cereals to Peru dates back to the 1687 earthquake which coincided with both an earthquake with a stem rust epidemic in Peru.Villalobos Silva Silva Estellé 1974 Given that Chilean soil and climatic conditions were better for cereal production than those of Peru and Chilean wheat was cheaper and of better quality than Peruvian wheat the 1687 events have been deemed only a detonant factor for exports to start.Villalobos Silva Silva Estellé 1974Collier Sater 2004 In the 16th and 17th century, the principal wine growing area of the Americas was in the central and southern coast of Peru.Huertas Vallejos 2004 In Peru, the largest wine-making centre was in the area of Ica and Pisco.Huertas Vallejos 2004 The earthquake destroyed wine cellars and mud containers used for wine storage.Lacoste 2004 This event marked a permanent decline in Peruvian winemaking.Cortés Olivares 2005 See also List of earthquakes in Peru List of historical earthquakes References Sources 30em 10.1029/gl017i011p01969 Susan L Beck Stuart P Nishenko 1990 Variations in the mode of great earthquake rupture along the Central Peru Subduction Zone Geophysical Research Letters 17 11 1969–1972 1990GeoRL..17.1969B https://zenodo.org/record/1231396 Simon Collier William F Sater 2004 A History of Chile: 1808–2002 1 – Colonial foundations, 1540–1810 CUP 10 978-0521534840 El origen, producción y comercio del pisco chileno, 1546–1931 Hernán F Cortés Olivares Instituto de Estudios Humanísticos Universidad de Talca, Chile Universum 2 20 42–81 2005 es 10.4067/S0718-23762005000200005 https://www.redalyc.org/pdf/650/65027759005.pdf free Historia de la producción de vinos y piscos en el Perú Lorenzo Huertas Vallejos Instituto de Estudios Humanísticos Universidad de Talca, Chile Universum 2 19 44–61 2004 es 10.4067/S0718-23762004000200004 https://scielo.conicyt.cl/scielo.php?pid=S0718-23762004000200004&script=sci_arttext free La vid y el vino en América del Sur: el desplazamiento de los polos vitivinícolas (siglos XVI al XX) Pablo Lacoste Instituto de Estudios Humanísticos Universidad de Talca, Chile Universum 2 19 62–93 2004 es 10.4067/S0718-23762004000200005 https://scielo.conicyt.cl/scielo.php?pid=S0718-23762004000200005&script=sci_arttext&tlng=es free 10.1785/0120050158 Emile A Okal José C Borrero Costas E Synolakis 2006 Evaluation of Tsunami Risk from Regional Earthquakes at Pisco, Peru Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 96 5 1634–1648 http://www.earth.northwestern.edu/people/emile/PDF/EAO178.pdf 2006BuSSA..96.1634O es Sergio Villalobos Osvaldo Silva Fernando Silva Patricio Estellé 1974 Historia de Chile Editorial Universitaria Chile 155–160 Category:Megathrust earthquakes in Peru Category:17th-century tsunamis Category:1687 disasters Category:1680s earthquakes Category:1687 in South America