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Earthquake History for October 17th
The earthquake was centered about 800 kilometers north of North Island, New Zealand, in an area where there have been very few earthquakes.
M6.9 - New Zealand, 1977
From Significant Earthquakes of the World 1977, and Earthquake Information Bulletin, Volume 10, Number 2.
This earthquake, centering just off the coast from Callao, claimed about 125 lives and injured some 3,000 persons. The town of Huacho was the most severely damaged with over 20,000 inhabitants left homeless. A religious festival was being held in Callao and several were killed when some of the churches collapsed. One street in this city was split by a chasm several feet wide. In Lima, 2,300 houses suffered severe structural damage. Cars were tossed about, cornices plunged into streets, and traffic was snarled for hours. Landslides and huge ground cracks were reported along the Pan American Highway north of Ancon. This shock generated a tsunami with heights of 11.3 feet at La Punta-Callao.
M8.1 - Peru, 1966
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