The 1575 Valdivia earthquake occurred at 14:30 local time on December 16.

Pedro Mariño de Lobera, who was corregidor of Valdivia by that time, wrote that the waters of the river opened like the Red Sea, one part flowing upstream and one downstream.

At that moment he wrote that, while many Native people died, no Spaniards did, as the settlement of Valdivia was moved temporarily away from the riverside.

These similarities show that large earthquakes have a pattern that span over several centuries.

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