Modern Era · South America · Disaster
1906
Valparaiso earthquake
August 16, 1906
A magnitude 8.2 earthquake struck Chile's main port city, killing roughly three thousand and destroying much of the city in a few terrifying minutes. Tsunami waves crossed the Pacific to Hawaii and Japan. Chile's seismic vulnerabilities came into sharp relief, and Valparaiso, once South America's busiest Pacific port and a cosmopolitan jewel of the southern hemisphere, began a long decline it would never fully reverse.
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