1974 Lima earthquake

1974 earthquake in Peru October 2024 1974 Lima earthquake 1974-10-03 14:21:31 Terremoto-lima-1974-imagen-para-commons.png House damage in Lima 736021 iscgem736021 1974 10 03 09:21:31 Peru w y 8.1 36 km on 12.25 S 77.52 W Peru IX 78 killed, 2,400 injured The 1974 Lima earthquake occurred on October 3 at 14:21 UTC (09:21 local time). It was located at about 80 km southwest of Lima, Peru. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/world/events/1974_10_03.php United States Geological Survey Historic Earthquakes Peru: 1974 October 03 14:21:29 UTC: Magnitude 8.1 The magnitude of the earthquake was put at 8.1 w y, or s y 7.8. The earthquake caused 78 deaths and left 2,400 injured. http://www.indeci.gob.pe/proyecto58530/objetos/archivos/index.php Instituto Nacional de Defensa Civil Instituto Nacional de Defensa Civil – INDECI https://web.archive.org/web/20171214050531/http://www.indeci.gob.pe/proyecto58530/objetos/archivos/index.php December 14, 2017 Background The intensity around Lima was generally about MM V to VII, but the maximum reached IX. Two buildings of reinforced concrete collapsed in La Molina, where the intensity was MM VIII to IX.Morales-Soto Nelson Zavala Carlos Terremotos en el litoral central del Perú: ¿podría ser Lima el escenario de un futuro desastre? Earthquakes in the central coast of Peru: could it be Lima the scene of a future disaster? Spanish Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Publica April 2008 25 2 217–224 http://www.scielo.org.pe/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1726-46342008000200011 A four-story reinforced concrete building in Callao collapsed. The largest aftershock occurred on November 9, 1974, at 12:59 UTC (07:59 local time) with a magnitude of w 7.1, or s 7.1.Langer C. J. Spence William The 1974 Peru earthquake series Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America June 1, 1995 85 3 665–687 https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/bssa/article-abstract/85/3/665/119942/The-1974-Peru-earthquake-series The November 9 aftershock was located at about 25 km south of the main shock. See also List of earthquakes in 1974 List of earthquakes in Peru References International Handbook of Earthquake & Engineering Seismology Part A, Volume 81A Global seismicity: 1900–1999 E. R. Engdahl A. Vallaseñor 2002 https://earthquake.usgs.gov/data/centennial/centennial.pdf Academic Press First 978-0124406520 683 External links 736021 Lima earthquake, 1974 Category:Earthquakes in Peru Category:1974 in Peru Category:October 1974 in South America Category:Megathrust earthquakes in Peru Category:1974 disasters in Peru