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Extracted from Database
13 Oct 2025
WARNING: METRIC STATION
THIS IS NOT RESEARCH QUALITY DATA.
USE WITH EXTREME CAUTION.
THIS IS NOT RESEARCH QUALITY DATA.
USE WITH EXTREME CAUTION.
Station Information
| Station ID: | 472 |
| Latitude: | -41.485 |
| Longitude: | -72.960833 |
| GLOSS ID: | 178 |
| Coastline code: | 850 |
| Station code: | 51 |
| Country: | CHILE |
| Time span of data: | 1942 – 2024 |
| Completeness (%): | 74 |
| Date of last update: | 09 Jun 2025 |
| Green Arrow: | Current Station |
| Yellow Marker: | Neighbouring RLR Station |
| Red Marker: | Neighbouring Metric Station |
Please note: In many cases, the station position in our database is accurate to only one minute. Thus, the tide gauge may not appear to be on the coast.
Tide Gauge Data
Additional Data Sources (guide to additional data sources)
Nearby Real Time Stations from VLIZ: pmon2, pmonFast Delivery Data from UHSLC station 684: hourly and daily
Research Quality Data from UHSLC station 684: hourly and daily
Station Documentation
Documentation added 1991-06-11
Puerto Montt 850/051 RLR(1970) is 12.6m below BM15Documentation added 1996-01-03
There was a magnitude 7.8 earthquake about 20 km offshore of northern Chile on 30 July 1995 which produced a tsunami of 1.3 m at Caldera and which was seen in many records across the Pacific (information from NTF, Australia).Documentation added 1998-05-20
Gauge type: 1945-73 float/stilling well, 1977- bubbler data 1942-45 from US Geological Survey gaugeDocumentation added 2001-01-26
For a review of the new Chilean tide gauge network, see "Tides in the Chilean Coasts" by Juan J. Fierro, Hydro International,Jan/Feb 2001, pp.7-9.COASTLINE PRONE TO EARTHQUAKE ACTIVITY;DATA POSSIBLY AFFECTED AS A RESULT
Documentation added 2004-10-20
Data for the period 1981-97 were replaced by a new data set received from the supplying authority (SHOA).Documentation added 2011-11-16
An Earthquake registering 8.8 on the Moment Magnitude Scale occurred off the coast of Central Chile at 03.34 local time (06.34 UTC) on 27.2.2010.Data Authority
Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service of the Chilean NavyErrazuriz 254
Playa Ancha
Valparaiso
