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1940 Peru earthquake
The 1940 Peru earthquake, also called the 1940 Lima earthquake, was a magnitude 8 earthquake that struck central Peru on May 24, 1940, killing about 300.
1942 Guayaquil earthquake
The 1942 Guayaquil earthquake was a magnitude 7.8 megathrust earthquake off the coast of Ecuador on 14 May 1942, causing severe damage and roughly 200 deaths in Guayaquil.
1944 San Juan earthquake
The 1944 San Juan earthquake was a magnitude 7.4 earthquake that struck San Juan, Argentina, on 15 January 1944, destroying most of the city and killing about 10,000 people.
1946 Dominican Republic earthquake
The 1946 Dominican Republic earthquake was a magnitude 8 earthquake off the country's north coast on August 4, 1946, the largest recorded in the Caribbean Basin.
1946 Jocaibamba earthquake
The 1946 Jocaibamba earthquake, also called the 1946 Ancash earthquake, was a magnitude 7.3 earthquake that struck the Andes of Ancash, Peru on 10 November 1946, killing about 1,400 people.
1947 Satipo earthquake
The 1947 Satipo earthquake was a destructive earthquake that struck Satipo, in central Peru's Junín department, on 1 November 1947, destroying much of the town and nearby La Merced.
1949 Tungurahua earthquake
The 1949 Tungurahua earthquake, known in Ecuador as the Terremoto de Ambato or Terremoto de Pelileo, struck the central Ecuadorian Andes on 5 August 1949, killing thousands.
1950 Anboledas earthquake
The 1950 Anboledas earthquake was a destructive earthquake that struck Arboledas and neighboring towns in Norte de Santander, Colombia, in July 1950, killing roughly 126 to 300 people.
1951 El Salvador earthquake
The 1951 El Salvador earthquake was a shallow quake sequence on 6 and 7 May 1951 that destroyed Jucuapa and Chinameca, killing more than 400 people.
1960 Puerto Montt earthquake
The 1960 Puerto Montt earthquake, usually known as the Valdivia earthquake, struck Chile on 22 May 1960 at magnitude 9.5, the largest instrumentally recorded, devastating Puerto Montt and Valdivia.
1965 Central Chile earthquake
The 1965 Central Chile earthquake was a magnitude 7.4 earthquake that struck near La Ligua, Chile, on 28 March 1965, killing hundreds through the El Cobre tailings dam failure.
1966 Peru earthquake
The 1966 Peru earthquake was a magnitude 8.1 thrust earthquake off Callao on October 17, 1966, killing about 125 people and generating a Pacific-wide tsunami.
1967 Venezuela earthquake
The 1967 Venezuela earthquake, known in Venezuela as the Caracas earthquake, was a magnitude 6.3 to 6.6 earthquake that struck off the northern coast on July 29, 1967, killing over 200 people.
1970 Ancash earthquake
The 1970 Ancash earthquake was a magnitude 7.7–8.0 earthquake off north-central Peru on May 31, 1970, killing roughly 70,000 people, the worst Western Hemisphere disaster to that time.
1972 Nicaragua earthquake
The 1972 Nicaragua earthquake was a destructive shallow earthquake that struck the capital, Managua, on December 23, 1972, killing about 10,000 people and destroying most of the city center.
1973 Veracruz earthquake
The 1973 Veracruz earthquake, also called the Orizaba earthquake, struck Veracruz and Puebla in southeast Mexico on 28 August 1973, killing roughly 400 to 1,200 people.
1976 Chimaltenango earthquake
The 1976 Chimaltenango earthquake, also called the 1976 Guatemala earthquake, was a magnitude 7.5 quake that struck Guatemala on 4 February 1976, killing about 23,000 people.
1979 Colombia earthquake
The 1979 Colombia earthquake, known as the Great Tumaco earthquake, was a magnitude 8.1 megathrust quake off Colombia's Pacific coast near Tumaco whose tsunami killed 454 people.
1980 Huajuapan de León earthquake
The 1980 Huajuapan de León earthquake struck southern Mexico on 24 October 1980, damaging about 90 percent of buildings in Huajuapan de León and killing more than 50 people.
1982 Chiapas earthquake
The 1982 Chiapas earthquake was the sequence of earthquakes preceding and following the eruption of El Chichón volcano in northern Chiapas, southern Mexico, from 28 March to 4 April 1982.
1983 Popayán earthquake
The shallow 1983 Popayán earthquake, magnitude 5.5, struck Popayán, Colombia, on 31 March 1983, killing about 300 people and destroying or damaging more than 14,000 houses, triggering Colombia's first seismic building code.
1985 Chile earthquake
The 1985 Chile earthquake was a magnitude 8.0 megathrust earthquake that struck off central Chile on March 3, 1985, killing 177 people and damaging Valparaíso, Santiago, and surrounding regions.
1986 El Salvador earthquake
The 1986 El Salvador earthquake struck the capital, San Salvador, on October 10, 1986, killing about 1,500 people and causing damage near a quarter of the country's GDP.
1987 Napo earthquake
The 1987 Napo earthquake was a pair of earthquakes that struck Napo Province, Ecuador, on March 5, 1987, triggering landslides that killed about 1,000 people.
1990 Moyabamba-Riojo earthquake
The 1990 Moyabamba-Riojo earthquake was a magnitude 6.6 earthquake that struck Peru's Alto Mayo valley on 29 May 1990, killing about 70 people and damaging thousands of adobe houses.
1992 Nicaragua earthquake
The 1992 Nicaragua earthquake was a magnitude 7.7 earthquake off Nicaragua's Pacific coast on September 1, 1992, generating a tsunami up to 10 meters high that killed at least 170 people.
1994 Cauca earthquake
The 1994 Cauca earthquake was a magnitude 6.4 earthquake that struck the Páez River basin in southwestern Colombia on 6 June 1994, killing about 1,100 people.
1999 Armenia, Colombia earthquake
The 1999 Armenia, Colombia earthquake was a magnitude 6.2 earthquake that struck Colombia's Eje Cafetero coffee region on 25 January 1999, killing about 1,185 people and damaging more than 100,000 buildings.
2001 El Salvador earthquake
A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck within the subducting Cocos plate off El Salvador on January 13, 2001, killing 944 people; a February 6.6 shock brought the total to almost 1,200.
2007 Peru earthquake
The 2007 Peru earthquake was a magnitude 8.0 subduction earthquake that struck off central Peru on 15 August 2007, devastating Pisco, Chincha Alta, and Ica and killing about 600 people.