1960 Valdivia earthquake

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  1. the 1960 Valadez via earthquake, A massive earthquake occurred as
  2. two days ago on the 22nd of May 1960 invalid
  3. E. V.
  4. A child at 3:11 p.m. The magnitude of this devastating
  5. earthquake was 9.5 measured on the Richter scale Because of
  6. this disastrous earthquake was a sudden braking in the rocks
  7. along a roughly 900 to 1000 km or 560 to
  8. 620 mile stretch of the Nascar play.
  9. The earthquake lasted for 10 minutes.
  10. However, you may be wondering how much damage can a
  11. 10 minute earthquake cause The earthquake left two million people
  12. homeless, 3000 people injured 1,655 people were killed.
  13. That's how much damage a 10 minute earthquake can cause
  14. The economic damage in Valladolid via evaluated to $550 million
  15. dollars and that was only in child.
  16. The earthquake triggered a massive tsunami which affected many other
  17. countries. It is predicted that other countries such as Hawaii
  18. Japan, the Philippines, eastern New Zealand, south of Australia, the
  19. illusion islands and the pacific rim are also going to
  20. be affected.
  21. It is also predicted by scientists using special equipment that
  22. the tsunami is going to have a surface wave magnitude
  23. of 8.6.
  24. An epicenter of 39.5° South 75 74.5° West and a
  25. focal depth of 33 km as I mentioned before, the
  26. earthquake is predicted to affect Zaki's Australia, which is where
  27. we are living.
  28. So many of these signs will be shown symbolizing that
  29. a tsunami has hit parts of Australia where you are
  30. living. And these images shows the where the tsunami has
  31. affect, where the tsunami is going to be affected, and
  32. the second picture is showing where the earthquake has affected.
  33. Thank you.