May 22, Strongest Earthquake Recorded Strikes Chile

May 22, strongest earthquake recorded strikes Chile

Today is Thursday, May 22, the 142nd day of 2025. There are 223 days left in the year. Today in history: On May 22, 1960, the strongest earthquake recorded struck southern Chile. The magnitude 9.5 quake claimed 1,655 lives, left 2 million homeless and triggered a tsunami responsible for over 230 additional deaths in Hawaii, Japan and the Philippines. Also on this date: In 1939, the foreign ministers of Germany and Italy, Joachim von Ribbentrop a…

He killed thousands of people, destroyed entire cities, created rivers and new landscapes, in an area of the country that since then has had to reinvent itself

Patricio Hurtado was 20 years old and expected to enter a football game when the ground shook like never before in Chile. “It was terrible. It seemed endless,” he says. More than six decades after the disaster, he revived that afternoon that marked him forever.

This Thursday, May 22, 65 years of the Valdivia earthquake will be commemorated. Let’s remember that this seismic event is the most powerful recorded in the history of modern humanity. Marcelo Lagos revealed unprecedented details about the possibilities of a new telluric movement of such magnitude in Chile. Marcelo Lagos says that earthquake would be “about 32 times bigger” than the 2010 earthquake. First of all, he explained that “earthquakes o…

May 22, 1960, will go down in history as the day Chile experienced the most powerful earthquake ever recorded. With a magnitude of 9.5, the quake shook the south of the country with devastating force, leaving between 1,655 and 2,000 dead and more than 2 million homeless. The tremor began at 3:11 p.m. and lasted nearly 14 minutes, an eternity in earthquake terms. Its epicenter was in the Araucanía region, near Traiguén, but the devastation was fe…