Central Chile Finally Breaks
- 9 April 2010
- journal article
- perspective
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 328 (5975), 181-182
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1189197
Abstract
It has been known for 10 years that the site of the Maule mega-earthquake of 27 February 2010 was fully locked and ready to break.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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