The
New York Times carries an article today about the state of stress in the vicinity of the epicenter of last February's magnitude 8.8 Chile earthquake. Different sources of information - seismic waves, gps, tsunami waves - have yielded somewhat different pictures. The epicenter occurred outside of the 200-mile-long Darwin gap which had not seen a large quake since one that Charles Darwin observed in 1835. Did the occurrence of the 2010 quake lead to a stress increase in this gap, and a higher risk of an upcoming large quake? We have the usual conclusion: more data are needed.
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