The 1570 Concepción earthquake occurred at 9:00, on February 8, 1570. The strong earthquake destroyed

Concepción, Chile Concepción (; originally: ''Concepción de la Madre Santísima de la Luz'', "Conception of the Blessed Mother of Light") is a city and commune in central Chile, and the geographical and demographic core of the Greater Concepción metropolitan a ...

. It was accompanied by a tsunami, and

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were felt for months. According to

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at least 2000 lives were lost and every house was destroyed. Because of a delay between the earthquake and the tsunami, much of the population was able to escape to higher ground. The earthquake's magnitude was 8.3 M_s, located at .

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