Jesuit relations of the 1730 earthquake: Santiago, Valparaíso and Concepción
Authors
Jaime Valenzuela Márquez
Docteur en Histoire et Civilisations, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (París). Profesor e investigador del Instituto de Historia y coordinador del Laboratorio de Historia Colonial, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Two reports have been transcribed on the earthquake that devastated central Chile and other nearby regions in 1730. These original documents relating to the cities of Santiago and Concepcion, and the port of Valparaiso, were written by eyewitnesses of the event, local Jesuits who wrote to their superior in Rome to give an account of the event and its catastrophic consequences. The focus of the information is placed on the divine history surrounding the event, the characteristics that had the earthquake and tsunami that, in the case of Concepcion, rocked bodies, houses and conscientes; as well as the material conditions in which these cities were.
Valenzuela Márquez, J. (2012). Jesuit relations of the 1730 earthquake: Santiago, Valparaíso and Concepción. Cuadernos De Historia, (37), Pág. 195–224. Retrieved from https://revistaestudiospoliticaspublicas.uchile.cl/index.php/CDH/article/view/29979
