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- From: "Juan Carlos Barroux - Technical Consultant - Latin America"
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- Subject: Re: types of earthquake predictions
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 22:59:20 CST
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- Estimados CHILE-Lenos,
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- Este e-mail es bastante interesante y a mas de alguno le traera recuerdos.
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- Muchos saludos.
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- Juan Carlos
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- In article 51678@seismo.CSS.GOV, stead@skadi.CSS.GOV (Richard Stead) writes:
- >
- >The 1960 Chile quake had Mw=9.6 (Mw is an open-ended magnitude scale,
- >Richter magnitude saturates at about 8.5 and cannot get larger). It
- >is the biggest quake during instrumental seismology. But there is evidence
- >it may well be the largest quake in several centuries. It broke a fault
- >area 800 km long and 200 km wide, and the sides slipped about 20 meters.
- >Hard to beat that for size. It was so big it made the earth wobble measurably,
- >and the rang like a bell for weeks.
- >
- >--
- >Richard Stead
- >Center for Seismic Studies
- >Arlington, VA
- >stead@seismo.css.gov
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