Video: 'Recalling 1960 Chile Quake'

(Sunday, May 22, 1960, 3:11:14 p.m. Chile Standard Time; during the 1960 Valdivia earthquake) — Nearly 5,000 people were killed by an earthquake of magnitude 9.5, the strongest ever measured, that struck today near Valdivia in southern Chile and lasted approximately 10 minutes.

Video: 'Tsunami Animation: Valdivia, Chile, 1960 (rotating globe)'

The initial tremor killed 1,655 people, and the aftershocks killed another 4,000. Two million were left homeless.

Video: 'Aftermath Of Chilean Earthquake (1960)'

The resulting tsunami affected southern Chile, Hawaii, Japan, the Philippines, eastern New Zealand, southeast Australia, and the Aleutian Islands.