Английская Википедия:1940 Lima earthquake

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The 1940 Lima earthquake occurred on May 24 at 11:35 a.m. PST with a magnitude of Шаблон:M8.2 on the moment magnitude scale. Shaking from this powerful earthquake was felt throughout the country, and in Ecuador and Chile. An estimated 179 to 300 Peruvians lost their lives while 3,500 left injured by the earthquake. The earthquake was centered near the coastal cities of Huacho and Huaura, about Шаблон:Cvt north of the Peruvian capital, Lima. A tsunami of up to two meters was generated without major damage.

Earthquake

The earthquake was a megathrust event, caused by a sudden slippage along a section of fault under the Peru–Chile Trench. Here, the Nazca Plate subducts beneath the South American Plate at a rate of Шаблон:Cvt/yr, this process could be seen throughout the entire west coast of South America. The interface where both plates make contact occasionally produce moderate to great earthquakes. During the May 1940 earthquake, it is thought that a Шаблон:Cvt × Шаблон:Cvt segment of the megathrust ruptured, with an average displacement of Шаблон:Cvt. A maximum uplift of Шаблон:Cvt, and subsidence of Шаблон:Cvt was estimated. The rupture area is wedged between that of the 1966 and 1974 earthquake.

Damage

In Lima, the devastation was great, 32 people were killed in this city alone, while in Callao, the death toll was at 58. The Lima Cathedral was badly damaged, together with several thousand buildings. At Bellavista, there were 11 deaths, ten of them were children when the school they were in collapsed, and in San Miguel, two were dead. An estimated 3.6 million Peruvian sols worth of damage was caused by the earthquake. The earthquake was felt with a maximum Modified Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe).

See also

• List of earthquakes in Peru
• List of earthquakes in 1940

External links

• LIMA EARTHQUAKE - NO SOUND from AP Archives
• Earthquake In Peru (1940) from British Pathé