Epicenter of 1960 Valdivia earthquake

Chile / Araucania / Traiguen /
 earthquake epicenter, invisible
The 1960 Valdivia earthquake or Great Chilean Earthquake (Spanish: Gran terremoto de Valdivia) of 22 May 1960 is to date the most powerful earthquake ever recorded, rating 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale. It occurred in the afternoon (19:11 GMT, 14:11 local time) and its resulting tsunami affected southern Chile, Hawaii, Japan, the Philippines, eastern New Zealand, south east Australia and the Aleutian Islands in Alaska.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chilean_Earthquake
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Coordinates:   38°14'23"S   73°2'59"W

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  • Is it, today-morning, this episode may related with the earth-quake, 1900 also? Must take care-of; Save them. All countries, all over the world, are requested to help Chile and adjoining-countries also. We must pray to God / Nature.
  • We must thank USA, seeing the portals, going deep "This place contains no history. Other history: polygon rectangle deletion -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Epicenter of 1960 Valdivia earthquake The 1960 Valdivia earthquake or Great Chilean Earthquake (Spanish: Gran terremoto de Valdivia) of 22 May 1960 is to date the most powerful earthquake ever recorded, rating 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale. It occurred in the afternoon (19:11 GMT, 14:11 local time) and its resulting tsunami affected southern Chile, Hawaii, Japan, the Philippines, eastern New Zealand, south east Australia and the Aleutian Islands in Alaska." Thanks!
  • thank god this earthquake did not happen on the year 1999
  • thank god that this earth quake did not happen in australia!!! :)
  • Where is the epicenter though?
  • where is the epicenter though this article does not help u at all
  • This hardly helped this was pretty bad and the coordinates were not correct!!!!!!!!!!! (..) / :////
  • I neeeeeeeddddd more info. This did not help at all
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