Nature Communications (Aug 2018)

Back to full interseismic plate locking decades after the giant 1960 Chile earthquake

  • Daniel Melnick,
  • Shaoyang Li,
  • Marcos Moreno,
  • Marco Cisternas,
  • Julius Jara-Muñoz,
  • Robert Wesson,
  • Alan Nelson,
  • Juan Carlos Báez,
  • Zhiguo Deng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05989-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Great megathrust earthquakes arise from the sudden release of strain accumulated during centuries of interseismic plate convergence. Here, the authors reconstruct interseismic strain accumulation since the 1960 Chile earthquake, finding a transient evolution at decadal scale with implications for estimating the probability of future events.