2014 Iquique Earthquake (IMAGE)

University of California - Santa Cruz

2014 Iquique Earthquake

Caption

This schematic illustration of the 2014 Iquique earthquake off the coast of Chile (magnitude 8.1) shows the locations of foreshocks (blue) and aftershocks (red) relative to the area of large slip on the fault (contour lines). The mainshock involved thrust faulting on the plate boundary between the underthrusting Nazca and the overriding South American plates.

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Wetzler et al., <i>Science Advances</i>, Feb-2018

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