IN studying the great Chilean earthquake of Nov. 10, 1922, Prof. Bailey Willis has been led to some interesting conclusions with regard to the origin of the great earthquakes of Chile and Peru. Invited by the Carnegie Institution to study the earthquake, he spent seven months in Chile, five...
The extensive records of the United States Geological Service (USGS) show that the biggest earthquake since 1900 occurred near the cities of Valdivia and Puerto Montt, Chile, in 1960. Known as the Great Chilean Earthquake, the quake measured 9.5 on the Richter scale. The death toll is not kn...
The strongest earthquake ever recorded in history was the Valdivia Earthquake, sometimes referred to as the Great Chilean Earthquake.Great Alaska Earthquake (1964)– 9.2 The Great Alaska earthquake of 1964, sometimes referred to as the Good Friday earthquake, struck Alaska's Prince William Sound re...
The Great Chilean Earthquake of 1960, with a magnitude of 9.5 Mw was the most powerful earthquake that was ever recorded. The tsunami that resulted due to the earthquake caused huge destruction to US, Argentina, Chile, Japan, Philippines, eastern New Zealand, southeast Australia, and the Aleutia...
the great Chilean earthquake of 1960, the most powerful ever recorded; the Alaskan "Good Friday" earthquake of 1964; the Indonesian "Boxing Day" earthquake of 2004, which produced a tsunami that killed a quarter of a million people; and the Japanese Tohoku earthquake of 2011, which produced ...
A similar investigation has been carried out on the great Chilean earthquake of 1960, also accompanied by many foreshocks and aftershocks. Using four sensitive and suitably located U.S.C.G.S. stations, Eureka, Tucson, South Pole, and Byrd, foreshocks and aftershocks were located in addition...
Kanamori, H. & Cipar, J. J. Focal process of the great Chilean earthquake May 22, 1960.Phys. Earth Planet. Int.9, 128–136 (1974). ArticleADSGoogle Scholar Vigny, C.et al.Insight into the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake from GPS measurements in southeast Asia.Nature436, 201–206 (200...
121, No. 1, 1983 Interpretation of the Precursor to the 1960 Great Chilean Earthquake as a Seismic Solitary Wave FERNANDO LUND 1 Abstract - Seismic solitary waves may exist. The situation envisaged is that of an elastic layer over a half space where transverse, linearly polarized surface waves...
The Chilean earthquake, measuring 8.8 – magnitude, which struck early Saturday morning, released 500 times the energy of the 7.0 – magnitude quake that hit Haiti last month, a geophysicist told CBS’ “The Early Show. ” Tsunami warnings were issued for much of the Pacific, including Hawaii...
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