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Chile as the ideal seismic lab

MAR 08, 2010
Physics Today
washingtonpost.com : Earthquake scientists, many of them from the US, have been flocking to Chile since the 27 February 8.8 magnitude earthquake in order to search for clues that will help them better forecast large earthquakes.Time is of the essence as valuable data could be lost, is a vast number of sensors aren’t deployed over the coming weeks. Related news picks The Chilean earthquake: The plate tectonics The Chilean earthquake: The observatories The earthquake risk to megacities
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