As I was writing my previous blog on the 7/12/2019 Three Lakes earthquake, I kept getting sidetracked and found myself writing about the mechanisms behind earthquakes in general (perhaps that’s the reason why this blog is so late to get out!) And while there’s so much more I’d like to cover, like the different types […]
A Megathrust Earthquake And Tsunami off Chile!
Thursday, September 17, 2015 1:24 p.m. The port town of Coquimbo, Chile after the earthquake and tsunami. Credit: Wikimedia User Sfs90 Chile is hands-down the most active place in the world when it comes to megathrust earthquakes. Three of the past six megathrust (subduction zone earthquakes over moment magnitude 8) earthquakes have been in Chile, […]