Risk of new quake seen after 2010 disaster
By Alister Doyle | China Daily | Updated: 2011-02-01 07:58
Scientists warn Chileans to ready for more tremors
OSLO - The risk of a new earthquake may have increased in an area of Chile's Pacific coast that suffered a massive quake and tsunamis last year that killed more than 500 people, a team of scientists said on Sunday.
They said the 8.8 magnitude Feb 27 quake had only partly broken stresses, deep in the Earth's crust in an area south of Santiago, that have been building up since an 1835 quake witnessed by British naturalist Charles Darwin.
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