Chilean Tsunami Animation

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Courtesy: Professor Nobuo Shuto of the Disaster Control Research Center, Tohoku University, Japan • • Retrieved from http://serc.carleton.edu • • Here is an animation of a 1960 earthquake of the coast of Chile in a very similar area to today's quake. • • On May 22, 1960, at 19:11 GMT, an earthquake occurred off the coast of South Central Chile. A Pacific-wide tsunami was triggered by the earthquake, which had a surface-wave magnitude of 8.6, an epicenter of 39.5° S, 74.5° W, and a focal depth of 33 km. The number of fatalities associated with both the tsunami and the earthquake has been estimated to be between 490 to 2,290. Damage cost estimates were over a half billion dollars.

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