1965 Yate landslide

A non-eruptive landslide of ice and rock, brought on by unusually heavy summer rains, slid rapidly into a narrow gully on the Chilean volcano Yate, descended around 1,500 metres in elevation and crashed into Lake Cabrera below. The wave that followed was raised by the slide rather than by any eruption. It is counted as the largest volcano-related loss of life in Chile since the Villarrica eruptions of 1948 to 1949.

Date and time (UTC)

1965-02-19

Highest recorded water height (m)

60

Cause, as the catalogue records it

volcano and landslide

NCEI event page

www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazel/view/hazards/tsunami/event-more-info/5470

Category: Disasters & Incidents

Tags: landslide, volcano, chile, lake

Coordinates: -41.755, -72.396

Part of Tsunamis with waves of 15 metres or more from 1950 to 1999

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