PUERTO MONTT

WARNING: METRIC STATION
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 – 2022
Completeness (%): 74
Date of last update: 22 May 2023

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.

Additional Data Sources (guide to additional data sources)

Nearby Real Time Stations from VLIZ: pmon2, pmon
Fast 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 BM15

Documentation 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 gauge

Documentation 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 Navy
Errazuriz 254
Playa Ancha
Valparaiso