Scientists find evidence of largest earthquake in human history 3,800 years ago

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Scientists find evidence of largest earthquake in human

history 3,800 years ago By Sommer Brokaw, UPI, April 19, 2022

 

Live Science, July 19, 2022, article

 

Salazar, D., Easton, G., Goff, J., Guendon, J.L., González-Alfaro, J.,

Andrade, P., Villagrán, X., Fuentes, M., León, T., Abad, M. and

Izquierdo, T., 2022. Did a 3800-year-old M w~ 9.5 earthquake

trigger major social disruption in the Atacama Desert?. Science

advances, 8(14), no. eabm2996. Open access paper

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.