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Natural Hazards Research

Chile M8.8 earthquake, February 27, 2010

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  U.S. Geological Survey
  
  National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)
  
  Tsunami Travel Time (TTT) map for Mw8.8 February 27, 2010 Chilean earthquake calculated by V. Gusiakov with the WinITDB (2007) software. TTT isolines are plotted in every 5 min, color changes in every hour.
  
  The 27 February 2010 mega-earthquake OFFSHORE MAULE, CHILE has ruptured the 600-km portion of the South American subduction zone between the Nazca and South American tectonic plates, which was recognized (yellow outline) as capable of producing a magnitude M8.0+ event before mid-2012 in the regular 2010a Update of the M8 algorithm predictions (Healy et al. 1992; password protected URL ).