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1928 Talca earthquake

Earthquake in Chile

Field	Value
title	1928 Talca earthquake
image	306-NT-933-G-5.jpg
map2	{{Location map+	South America#Chile
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{{Location map~	South America#Chile	lat	-36.66	long=-73.05	label=Concepción	position=left	label_size=120	mark=Green pog.svg}}
{{Location map~	South America#Chile	lat	-35.0	long=-72.0	marksize=40	mark=Bullseye1.png}}
relief	yes
width	260
float	right
caption	}}
timestamp	1928-12-01 04:06:17
isc-event	908986
anss-url	iscgem908986
local-date
local-time	00:06
magnitude	7.6 Mw, 8.3 MS, 7.9 ML
intensity
depth	20 km (centroid)
duration	1 minute 45 seconds
countries affected	Chile, Curepto
location
aftershocks	7.0 1928-12-02
casualties	279 dead

|isc-event = 908986 |anss-url = iscgem908986 |local-date = |local-time = 00:06 The 1928 Talca earthquake occurred on 1 December at 00:06 local time near Curepto, Maule Region, Chile, with an estimated magnitude of 7.6 MW, 8.3 MS and 7.9 ML. In Talca, it lasted 1 minute 45 seconds.

There was damage between Valparaíso and Concepción, and severe damage on the coast from Cauquenes to Pichilemu, and in the following cities in the Chilean Central Valley: Talca, Curicó and San Fernando.

In Talca there were 108 dead, 67 in Constitución, and 50 in the surrounding villages. Soon after the earthquake, the Barahona dam, in the valley of Cachapoal River, that contained copper tailings, collapsed, killing 54 miners.

In total, there were 279 dead, 1,083 wounded and 127,043 homeless.

References

Servicio Sismológico Universidad de Chile, [https://archive.today/20120629151808/http://ssn.dgf.uchile.cl/terremoto.html Sismos importantes o destructivos desde 1570]
"Historic World Earthquakes". United States Geological Survey.
SHOA. "TSUNAMIS REGISTRADOS EN LA COSTA DE CHILE".
NGDC, NOAA. "Significant Earthquake".
(2002). "A seismological study of the 1835 seismic gap in south-central Chile". Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors.

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