MAY 22.1960
LOCATION CHILI
EARTHQUAKE.
AND TSUNAMI
Many Chilean cities, including Puerto Montt, where noticeable subsidence occurred, and Valdivia, where nearly half of the buildings were rendered uninhabitable, sustained significant damage. Though the havoc wreaked by the shaking was not inconsequential, most of the casualties resulted from the descent 15 minutes later of a tsunami that rose up to 80 feet (25 metres) high on the expanse of Chilean coastline—bounded by the cities of Lebu and Puerto Aisen—that paralleled the subducting plate. The combined effects of the disaster left two million people homeless. Though the death toll was never fully resolved, early estimates ranging into the thousands were scaled back to approximately 1,600. About 3,000 people were injured.
LOCATION CHILI
EARTHQUAKE.
AND TSUNAMI
Many Chilean cities, including Puerto Montt, where noticeable subsidence occurred, and Valdivia, where nearly half of the buildings were rendered uninhabitable, sustained significant damage. Though the havoc wreaked by the shaking was not inconsequential, most of the casualties resulted from the descent 15 minutes later of a tsunami that rose up to 80 feet (25 metres) high on the expanse of Chilean coastline—bounded by the cities of Lebu and Puerto Aisen—that paralleled the subducting plate. The combined effects of the disaster left two million people homeless. Though the death toll was never fully resolved, early estimates ranging into the thousands were scaled back to approximately 1,600. About 3,000 people were injured.
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