Predecessors of the giant 1960 Chile earthquake

2005/09/01 by Marco Cisternas, Brian F. Atwater, Fernando Torrejón +13 · 3 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Aftershock #Earthquake Detection and Analysis #Earthquake prediction #Earthquake rupture #Earthquake swarm #Fault (geology) #Foreshock #Geological and Geochemical Analysis #Geology #Induced seismicity #Interplate earthquake #Intraplate earthquake #Paleontology #Plate tectonics #Remotely triggered earthquakes #San andreas fault #Seismic gap #Seismology #Slip (aerodynamics) #Slow earthquake #Subsidence #Tectonics #Tsunami earthquake #earthquake and tectonic studies

paper · doi:10.1038/nature03943

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Citations

• Major earthquakes and tsunamis in Chile during the period 1535 to 1955
• Source area and rupture parameters of the 31 December 1881 Mw = 7.9 Car Nicobar earthquake estimated from tsunamis recorded in the Bay of Bengal
• Size of great earthquakes of 1837–1974 inferred from tsunami data
• The Great Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake of 26 December 2004
• Current plate motions

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• Did a 3800-year-old M w ~9.5 earthquake trigger major social disruption in the Atacama Desert?
• The 21 May 1960 Mw 8.1 Concepción Earthquake: A Deep Megathrust Foreshock That Started the 1960 Central-South Chilean Seismic Sequence
• 1960 Valdivia earthquake [wikipedia]