2007 Aysén Fjord earthquake

The earthquake of 21 April 2007 at Aisén in southern Chile, near 45.5 degrees south, triggered rock slope failures along the walls of the fjord at Puerto Aysén. It was this series of landslides into the water, rather than the shaking itself, that generated the wave, and a field survey afterwards gathered the measurements used to model it.

Date and time (UTC)
2007-04-21T17:53
Highest recorded water height (m)
50
Cause, as the catalogue records it
earthquake and landslide
Magnitude of the causing earthquake
6.2
NCEI event page
www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazel/view/hazards/tsunami/event-more-info/3044

Category: Disasters & Incidents

Tags: earthquake, landslide, fjord, chile, aysen

Coordinates: -45.285, -72.606

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