The Chile-2015 (Illapel) Earthquake and Tsunami
This volume presents a collection of contributions that were published in "Pure and Applied Geophysics - pageoph" and which deals with the major earthquake that hit Illapel, Chile on September 16, 2015 with magnitude 8.3, and associated trans-oceanic tsun
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Carla Braitenberg Alexander B. Rabinovich Editors
The Chile-2015 (Illapel) Earthquake and Tsunami
The Chile-2015 (Illapel) Earthquake and Tsunami Edited by Carla Braitenberg Alexander B. Rabinovich
Previously published in Pure and Applied Geophysics (PAGEOPH), Volume 173, No. 2, 4–7, 2016 and Volume 174, No. 1 and 3, 2017
Editors Carla Braitenberg Department of Mathematics and Geoscience University of Trieste Trieste Italy
Alexander B. Rabinovich Institute of Ocean Sciences Department of Fisheries and Oceans Sidney Canada and P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow Russia
ISBN 978-3-319-57821-7 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-57822-4
ISBN 978-3-319-57822-4 (eBook)
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Preface The Peru-Chile subduction zone, where the Nazca Plate subducts beneath the South American Plate, is one of the most active seismic zones on the Earth. The Great Chilean (Valdivia) Earthquake with the moment magnitude Mw 9.5 occurred in this zone on 22 May 1960. The earthquake was the strongest ever instrumentally recorded; modern estimates demonstrate that almost 25% of the total global seismic energy released between 1906 and 2005 was related to the Great Chilean earthquake. The 1960 Chilean earthquake was a milestone in modern seismological
