A day like today, 154 years ago, a magnitude 9 earthquake and caused a tsunami in Arequipa. The seismologist Víctor Aguilar Puruhaya recalled that on August 13, 1868, at 4:45 p.m., the tremor that caused destruction in southern Peru.
It was considered one of the strongest earthquakes, because it literally destroyed the city of Arequipa and left fissured hills in the areas surrounding the Yura baths.
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Homes were also damaged in the cities of Arica, Tacna, Moquegua, Ilo, Torata.
At 5:37 p.m. an impetuous overflow of the sea began, the first seismic wave reached a height of 12 meters and devastated the port of Arica.
Half an hour later, at 6:30 p.m., the sea broke again with 16 meter high wavesFinally, at 19:10, the third seismic wave hit, stranding the 1,560-ton corvette America and the USS Wateree, which were thrown about 300 meters from the beach inland. The exits of the sea.
According to Civil Defense records, they died least 30 people in Chala10 in Arequipa, 3 in Tacna, 150 in Moquegua, and in Arica 300, when it still belonged to Moquegua.
The ocean churning reached as far as California, Hawaii, Yokohama, the Philippines, Sydney, and New Zealand.
