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The largest earthquake in Calexico: today: 3.1 in Doctor Alberto Oviedo Mota, Baja California, Mexico. this week: 3.1 in Doctor Alberto Oviedo Mota, Baja California, Mexico. this month: 4.0 in Westmorland, California, United States.
The 1960 Chile earthquake was the largest earthquake of the 20th Century. It struck off the coast of South Central Chile on May 22, 1960. Since that earthquake Chile was struck on February 27, 2010 with an 8.8 earthquake that caused the Earth to spin slightly faster. 1960 Valdivia earthquake damage, USGS. Largest earthquake ever recorded. The 1960 earthquake in Chile was the largest earthquake ever recorded by seismographs. It was a 9.5 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Chile. The Nazca Plate, an oceanic plate, is subducting beneath the North American Plate, a continental plate. A megathrust earthquake was caused in the subduction zone by the movement of the plates. Megathrust earthquakes are very large earthquakes were the rocks break along a long section of a fault zone. Thirty minutes before the 9.5 earthquake a foreshock shook the area near the towns of Valdivia and Puerta Montt.