Deadly quakes and tsunamis in Latin America

2014 April 1. CHILE: An 8.2-magnitude quake hits northern Chile’s Pacific coast, generating tsunami waves that lash the shoreline near the city of Iquique. Tsunami alerts are issued for Ecuador, Honduras, Indonesia and Peru.
2012Nov. 7. GUATEMALA: A 7.4-magnitude earthquake strikes off the Pacific coast, leaving 44 people dead or missing. The hardest hit area is the province of San Marcos, west of the capital Guatemala City.
2010 Jan. 12. HAITI: A 7.0-magnitude earthquake kills between 250,000 and 300,000 people and leaves more than one million homeless. The quake devastates the capital Port-au-Prince and the economy of one of the world’s poorest countries.
Feb. 27. CHILE: An 8.8-magnitude earthquake strikes just three km off Chile, unleashing a tsunami and killing more than 520 people. Most of the dead are in the coastal area of Maule, 400 km southwest of the capital Santiago, where waves of two-six meters high crash ashore.
2009 Jan. 8. COSTA RICA: A 6.2-magnitude earthquake rocks central Costa Rica, leaving more than 30 dead or missing in the touristic region near the Poas volcano, some 40 km northwest of the capital San Jose.
May 28. HONDURAS: A 7.1-magnitude earthquake rocks the northern coast, killing seven in the country’s economic and tourist heartland.
2007 April 21. CHILE: A 6.2-magnitude quake strikes a southern region of Chile, leaving more than a dozen people dead or missing.
Aug. 15. PERU: A 7.7-magnitude earthquake hits the south of the country and the capital Lima, killing more than 600 people. Another 300 go missing and 320,000 are left homeless.
2005 June 14. CHILE: The north of the country near Peru and Bolivia is hit by a 7.9-magnitude earthquake that kills 11 people.
2003 Jan. 21. MEXICO: A 7.8-magnitude quake shakes the Pacific coast, killing 29 people and injuring more than 300.
2001 Jan. 13 & Feb. 13. EL SALVADOR: Two earthquakes, measuring 7.6 and 6.6 respectively, kill 1.142 people and leave 2,000 others missing. A total of 1.3 million people are affected by the two quakes.
June 23. PERU: A 7.9-magnitude earthquake in southern Peru kills more than 100 people and affects 70,000 others. Western Bolivia and northern Chile are also hit.