The Anatomy of the Great Chile Earthquake and Tsunami

Steven Ward, a geophysicist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, provides a video explanation of the seismic shift that caused the 8.8 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Chile and a simulation of the resulting tsunami.
His Web site has heaps of valuable background on such events:
http://es.ucsc.edu/~ward/
More on this and other disasters can be found on Dot Earth at The New York Times:
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/disasters

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• chile
• earthquake
• disasters
• geology
• tsunami
• oceans
• pacific
• simulation

[stlnstln]

Great video!

[TheCaricuncho]

Acabo de vivir un terremoto 8.8 en escala Richter con Tsunami en la ciudad de Concepción, a 600 Km aproximados de Santiango (Capital de Chile). Buen video para que conozcan como es la dinamica de placas en esta zona, y el efecto de un Tsunami en el mundo. Aguante Chile!!

[tpstrat14]

How informative. Thank you! I wish youtube had more of this kind of stuff. Very interesting

[MsMrFat]

this is great information

thanks!

[fridaysabtu]

Yesterday Hawaii Tsunami scientists prediction blown, today Western Europe winter storms exposed. France President, Nicolas Sarkozy, declared national disaster.

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[nemesisora]

@TheCaricuncho Ojala que esten bien tu y tu familia. Mucha fuerza para todos.

Saludos tambien de Conce!

[Canuckboy123]

Excellent video. Thanks for posting.

[vvvTHORvvv]

This video is great for the bunch of idiots out there saying that the earthquake was intentionally caused by the U.S. and for the record I'm not a U.S. citizen nor a resident.

[iss1732]

que gran video y muy entendible para los que andamos a pie en estos temas gracias