Resumen de Chile is facing yet another megaquake
A huge earthquake is predicted for Chile, after a major tremor earlier this 2014 failed to relieve seismic stresses that have been building for 140 years. The magnitude 8.2 Iquique quake on Apr 1 killed six and now two separate analyses say worse is to come. Even though a very large quake has already happened this year, the hazard has not vanished, says Gavin Hayes of the US Geological Survey in Golden CO. The risk zone stretches for 500 km along much of Chile's coastline, where the Nazca tectonic plate in the Pacific burrows eastwards beneath the South American plate.
