Chile's Coastal Hazards
Tsunamis The risk of Chilean coasts being affected by tsunamis is classified as high, according to ThinkHazard. The website says this means that Chile has a 20% chance of a potentially-damaging tsunami occuring in the next 50 years. An example of a tsunami that wreaked havoc over Chile is the earthquake and tsunami Maule. Maule On February 27th, 2010 a huge earthquake occurred off the coast of Maule in central Chile, just 70 miles from Chile's second largest city, Concepcion. A post about this earthquake/tsunami on the SMS Tsunami Warning website states, "It occurred on the subduction zone plate boundary at the Peru - Chile Trench where the oceanic Nazca Plate subducts beneath the continental South American Plate", resulting in a quake of 8.8 magnitude. The map here signifies the epicenter of the quake as the red dot with the star, while the yellow dots represent areas that felt aftershocks of the quake until March 25th, 2010 (holy cow). The post also...