Earthquake rupture halted by seamounts

Wednesday, September 30, 2015 - 09:20 in Earth & Climate

Experts expected for some time that one of the next mega earthquakes occurs off northern Chile. But when the earth did tremble around the northern Chilean city of Iquique in 2014, the strength and areal extent of shaking was much smaller than anticipated. Geologists now publish a possible explanation.

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