Another earthquake probable for Chile, scientists say
JAN 31, 2011
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.025014
Scientific American : The risk of a new earthquake may have increased in an area of Chile’s Pacific coast that last year suffered a massive quake and tsunamis, which killed more than 500 people, a team of scientists said on Sunday. The magnitude-8.8 quake had only partly broken stresses, deep in Earth’s crust in an area south of Santiago, that have been building up since an 1835 quake witnessed by British naturalist Charles Darwin. “We conclude that increased stress on the unbroken patch may in turn have increased the probability of another major to great earthquake there in the near future,” the team wrote in the journal Nature Geoscience .
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