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EarthquakeCase Study
Chile 1960Andrea Anderson,Cassie Aragon,Rachel Clarke,Natalee Simkins,Meegan Sims, andLauren Van Wagenen
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Introduction
Chile has had many
earthquakes throughtime, but the earthquakeof 1960 is the largestearthquake everrecorded instrumentally.
It made the develoed!orld more a!are of theha"ard of tsunamisgenerated by distantearthquakes. It alsoheled to begin !arningcenters and soundconstruction.
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Location
#he 1960 Chilea$arthquake begcoast of Chile %u&aldivia.
#he earthquakehere and sreadthe !hole count'rgentina a(ectcities surrounditsunami.
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When
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How Big
)oment )agnitude+
9.
$icenter+ /9. ,. 2
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How Bad#he ma3imum e3erienced intensity of the earthquake on
)odi4ed )ercalli scale !as 5I.
ased on the damaged, the follo!!ere assigned to outhern Chile to
7ebu 8 5 :io ;egro8 I5uertoaavedra8 &II
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Measurements o the !isaster
#he earthquake lasted about 1* minutes. #he ruture "one is estimated to
km long, from 7ebu to >uerto 'isen. #his ruture !as one of the longest ev
)any natural disasters !ere triggered by the aftershock of the earthquakelandslides, tsunamis, seiches, the :inihua"o ?ood, and the Cordon Caull
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"h#sical $eatures
#he earthquake occurredon a thrust fault that is thesubduction "one bet!eenthe ;a"ca >late and theouth 'merican >late.
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"rocesses
#he main shock set o( a series of !ave
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%&ects o the Natural !isaster
'fter the tsunami from the earthquake hit @a!aii, nearly
acres of the harbor !ere inundated, !hich is !here all thand damages took lace 8!hich cost D*/. million
=nly buildings reinforced !ith concrete or structural stee
standing, even though they !ere cleaned out and the fra
!ere all thatBs left. rame buildings, automobiles, a 10
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"re'ious and Su(se)uent %'en
oreshocks in the earthquake !arned a fe! of the eol
allo!ing them to evacuate buildings and the area.
)any smaller earthquakes have occurred in Chile since 1=ctober 6th, Chile received a . si"e earthquake. Joog!arning for the aftershocks in Chile in case they ended udamage to !eakened structures. ut aftershocks can oc
ne3t fe! hours to the ne3t fe! months of the original ea
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$actors that ma# ha'e increasdecreased intensit# o natura
*henomena Earthquake-induced tsunamis asouthern Chile, Hawaii, Japan, thHong Kong, eastern New ZealanAustralia and the Aleutian Island
Landslidesin the glacial valleys
southern Andes did not cause mor economic loss ecause not a llived in the area
Seicheon Panguipulli !a"e # me"illed two people
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+ther Interesting Scientic-Cu$actsCultural After the earth$ua"e, in the coastal village Collileufu, native
!af"enches offered a human sacri%ce& He demanded thesacri%ce of a young oy in order to calm the earth and theocean& '(year(old Jos) !uis Painecur, an *orphan+ was thevictim&
Scientifc he #-./ earth$ua"e led to0 the rise of the Paci%c sunami
1arning Center, Chile2s good uilding standards, and verylittle loss of life in the ig earth$ua"es of the 3#st centuryecause of the strict uilding standards&
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"ro(lem Sol'ing Ater the%arth)uake
=nemiK 'fter the earthquake, a committee
!as formed to solve roblemscaused by the earthquake.
K It continued to oerate, to develo
aroaches for nationalemergencies.
K In 19, it !as authori"ed by la! asan indeendent governmentaloLce. 8G=;$)IH
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%conomic Im*acts
Eects o the disaster let two million people homeless
4''/ million dollars in damages in southern chile
45' million sunami damage in Hawaii
4'/ million in damages in Japan
4'//,/// damage to the west coast of the 6nited 7tates
Although devastating, the destructions of homes and uildings led to gconstruction activity and investments in pulic wor"s
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Casualties, In.ured and Homel
1,6 killed
/,000 in%ured
*,000,000 homeless @a!aii+ 61 casualties Aaan+ 1/ casualties
ured, and many uildings were de7urrounding countries were also affected y the earth$ua"e y the cretsunamis&
7ince then, the world ecame more aware of the impacts an earth$ua"economy, construction, and people2s way of life&
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ReerencesMata Catalog. 8*01, etember *6. :etrieved =ctober , *01, from htts+NNcatalog.data.govN
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