Essay On Chile Earthquake

The largest earthquake ever occurred in the 20th century was the Valdivia Earthquake. As cited in the sources, the magnitude of this powerful earthquake was approximately 9.5 and totally destroyed communities near the epicenter. Because this great number of magnitude has a power to eradicate everything around it. Other earthquakes might be the larger but it’s the first one since accurate estimates of magnitude became possible. This was a megathrust earthquake which means that an earthquake occurred in subduction zones where two crustal plates are bumping each other. On May 22, 1960, in the middle of the afternoon, a wide range of place started to quake, near Valdivia, in southern Chile and lasted in 7 to 10 minutes. Consequently, dozens of islands and countries were affected; and the death toll, and monetary costs skyrocketed. Everything has its own reason. As for the Great Chilean Earthquake (or the Valdivia Earthquake), it occurred, caused of the release of mechanical stress between the subducting Nazca Plate and the South American Plate. Also, as a result of an earthquake, an enormous wave of the tsunami affected Southern Chile, Hawaii, Japan, the Philippines, Eastern
As experts and historians explored, there’s no exact number of deaths, but as estimated, about four thousand to six thousand of people lost their lives, and up to three thousand people injured, during the tsunami. Waves of the deluge was as high as 10.7 meters and it affected more than 400.000 square kilometers (about 150.000 sq mi) of place. A huge tsunami flooded into Valdivian most extensive areas of cities, destroying 40 percent of houses. In addition, it did affect the rural areas, especially seaside farms, killing livestocks and people. It’s a really huge damage that the tsunami wiped out a lot of lives within only 10 minutes, and it’s the one of the blackest day in a world