Earthquake, estimated at magnitude 8.0, recorded 83 kilometers NW of Chile

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15. Chile gets at about one earthquake a year greater then 6.0

Chile

1730 07 08 - Valparaiso, Chile - M 8.7 Fatalities 5
1835 02 20 - Concepcion, Chile - M 8.2 Fatalities 500
1868 08 13 - Arica, Peru (now Chile) - M 9.0 Fatalities 25,000
1877 05 10 - Offshore Tarapaca, Chile - M 8.3 Fatalities 34
1906 08 17 - Valparaiso, Chile - M 8.2 Fatalities 3,882
1922 11 11 - Chile-Argentina Border - M 8.5
1928 12 01 - Talca, Chile - M 7.6 Fatalities 225
1939 01 25 - Chillan, Chile - M 7.8 Fatalities 28,000
1943 04 06 - Illapel - Salamanca, Chile - M 8.2 Fatalities 25
1960 05 21 - Arauco Peninsula, Chile - M 7.9
1960 05 22 - Chile - M 9.5 Fatalities 1,655
1965 02 23 - Taltal, Chile - M 7.0 Fatalities 1
1965 03 28 - La Ligua, Chile - M 7.4 Fatalities 400
1971 07 09 - Valparaiso region, Chile - M 7.5 Fatalities 90
1985 03 03 - offshore Valparaiso, Chile - M 7.8 Fatalities 177
1998 01 30 - Near Coast of Northern Chile - M 7.1
2002 06 18 - Chile-Argentina Border Region - M 6.6
2003 06 20 - Near the Coast of Central Chile - M 6.8
2004 05 03 - Bio-Bio, Chile - M 6.6
2005 06 13 - Tarapaca, Chile - M 7.8 Fatalities 11
2007 11 14 - Antofagasta, Chile - M 7.7 Fatalities 2
2007 12 16 - Antofagasta, Chile - M 6.7
2008 02 04 - Tarapaca, Chile - M 6.3
2009 11 13 - Offshore Tarapaca, Chile - M 6.5
2010 02 27 - Offshore Bio-Bio, Chile - M 8.8 Fatalities 547

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/world/historical_country.php#chile