In the News: Earthquake Study by Chilean MSI Researchers

A 2009 paper by a team of researchers, including three from an MSI Nucleus, the Montessus de Ballore International Earthquake Research Center, has been cited in the Chilean press in the wake of the magnitude 8.8 earthquake in Chile in February 2010.

The authors wrote in a paper published last year that “the region from 35°S to 37°S is a likely spot for a major subduction earthquake in the coming decades,” and “in a worst case scenario, the area already has a potential for an earthquake of magnitude as large as 8–8.5, should it happen in the near future.”

The epicenter of the February 27 quake was 35.8 degrees south latitude.