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The 2010 Chile earthquake (Spanish: Terremoto del 27F) [7] occurred off the coast of central Chile on Saturday, 27 February at 03:34:12 local time (06:34:12 UTC), having a magnitude of 8.8 on the moment magnitude scale, with intense shaking lasting for about three minutes.
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The magnitude-8.8 earthquake struck at 3:34 am. The epicentre was located some 200 miles (325 km) southwest of the Chilean capital of Santiago, and the focus occurred at a depth of about 22 miles (35 km) below the surface of the Pacific Ocean.
At 3.34 am on 27th February 2010, a powerful magnitude 8.8 earthquake occurred just off the coast of central Chile. The earthquake occurred at the destructive plate margin where the South American plate is subducted by the Nazca Plate. The earthquake was followed by a series of smaller aftershocks.
The magnitude 8.8 earthquake of February 27, 2010 ruptured the portion of the South American subduction zone separating the source regions of the 1960 and 1906 earthquakes. A large vigorous aftershock sequence can be expected from this earthquake.
The Mw 8.8 Maule megathrust earthquake of 27 February 2010 occurred in the previously identified Concepción-Constitución seismic gap in central Chile. This gap had been defined from the size of the 1835 Mw 8.5 earthquake inferred from descriptions by Darwin and Fitzroy (3, 4) (Fig. 1).
27 Φεβ 2010 · The February 27, 2010, M 8.8 Chilean (Maule) earthquake occurred as the result of shallow thrust faulting generated at the gently sloping plate boundary fault that conveys the Nazca plate eastward and downward beneath the South America plate.
9 Σεπ 2010 · The earthquake of moment magnitude M w = 8.8 that struck the Maule and Bío-Bío regions in south-central Chile on 27 February 2010 (at 06:34:14 UTC, with epicentre 35.909° S, 72.733° W, 35...
