SAFETY PERFORMANCE OF DAMS IN CHILE’S HIGHLY SEISMIC ENVIRONMENT
Table 5. Tailings dams built after 1965 including earth, waste rock and sand tailings dams
None of these dams have suffered any significant damage during the relatively recent earthquakes of Valparaiso, Maule and Illapel, even though most of these dams are at a relatively short distance from the epicentres, as shown in Figure 41 for the particular case of the Illapel earthquake of 2015.