r/Earthquakes • u/tukai1976 • Jun 17 '24

Videos Any documentaries available about the 1960 Chilean earthquake?

I’ve never found much information about it in YouTube. Are there any documentaries out there?

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u/mrxexon Jun 17 '24

I don't think there is much information about it. Chile in 1960 was something of a backwater country. Seismology itself was still a new science. Most scientific info came from outside the country.

I remember reading a book about it many years ago. Eyewitness stuff. One recounted seeing coffins sticking out of a hillside while other coffins had fallen into the river below and floated away.

End of the world stuff. Some of the biggest quakes ever recorded come from this region...

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u/miyagidan Jun 17 '24

That quake started relations between municipalities in Chile and Japan which continue to today

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u/CrappySalami Jun 18 '24

Did not know that

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u/miyagidan Jun 18 '24

It's tsunami claimed lives on the northeast shore, and they've had relations and exchanged gifts since, a genuine Easter Island stone Moai in the aftermath of 3/11 being the biggest.

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u/miyagidan Jun 19 '24

I forgot I had this tab open, it's news coverage from Japan when the tsunami hit.

Not a documentary, but all I have on hand.

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u/Ok_Style8774 Oct 13 '24

It was covered on The History Channel documentary series "Wrath of God"(which ran from 1997-2002) and was released on home video but unfortunately home releases of that show are quite rare(as I believe they were only ever sold online through the A&E website or mail order) and when they do show up they can sometimes cost quite a bit(I just got a Wrath of God tape in the mail today that I had to pay 50 bucks for no joke).

Several episodes of that show used to be on Youtube but unfortunately the person that uploaded a lot of them got their channel terminated so many are missing now.

Here's the Amazon page for the video for the one on the Chilean earthquake, if you're ever at a garage sale, flea market or thrit store or something like that be sure to keep an eye out for this one: https://www.amazon.com/Wrath-God-Chilean-Earthquake-World/dp/B000F6ZDEW

I would normally check some of the removed videos from the playlist with the Wayback Machine and see if that particular episode is on there but that site is unfortunately down now.