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Historic Earthquake
1906 Ecuador-Colombia Earthquak
31 January 1906 · Off Coast · Ecuador
On 31 January 1906 at 15:36 UTC, a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck Ecuador (Off Coast), at a depth of 20 km. It occurred on the North Andes Plate, 122 km from its boundary with the Nazca Plate (subduction zone). It killed at least 1,000 people. It is the 6th most powerful of the earthquakes recorded since 1900.
- Date
- 31 January 1906
- Time
- 15:36 UTC
- Magnitude
- 8.8
- Depth
- 20 km
- Maximum Intensity
- IX (Mercalli)
- Deaths
- 1,000
- Tsunami
- See the tsunami (5.0 m wave)
- Plate
- North Andes Plate
- Country
- Ecuador
- Nearest Volcano
- Chachimbiro (132 km)
Nearby Major Earthquakes
Other major earthquakes recorded within 300 km.
- 20162016 Ecuador Earthquake · M 7.8663 deaths
- 19981998 Bahía de Caráquez Earthquake · M 7.23 deaths
- 1987Napo Province, Quito · M 7.25,000 deaths
- 19791979 Tumaco Earthquake · M 8.1600 deaths
- 19581958 Ecuador-Colombia Earthquake · M 7.6115 deaths
- 1956Ecuador · M 7.3
- 1938Alangasi, Sangolqui · M 7.0
- 1904Ecuador · M 7.7
Sources: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Significant Earthquake Database (doi:10.7289/V5TD9V7K) · Wikidata · Bird (2003), PB2002 · Natural Earth