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Underwater Plate Cuts 400-Mile Gash

By HENRY FOUNTAIN

Published: February 27, 2010

Summary:The magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck off the coast of Chile early Saturday morning occurred along the same fault responsible for the biggest quake ever measured, a 1960 tremor that killed nearly 2,000 people in Chile and hundreds more across the Pacific, Both earthquakes took place along a fault zone where the Nazca tectonic plate, the section of the earth’s crust that lies under the Eastern Pacific Ocean south of the Equator, is sliding beneath another section, the South American plate. The two are converging at a rate of about three and a half inches a year.

Response: I bet this article would frighten me if i lived my the ocean where this could harm me. And its kinda of scary to think about but i don't think it will cause that many problems.