{"id":2754,"date":"2014-08-13T13:10:52","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T18:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2754"},"modified":"2014-08-13T11:25:34","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T16:25:34","slug":"chilean-earthquake-wasnt-the-one-scientists-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/chilean-earthquake-wasnt-the-one-scientists-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"Chilean earthquake wasn\u2019t the one scientists expected<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2746\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/iquique-3-large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2746\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2746\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/iquique-3-large.jpg\" alt=\"This satellite radar image shows the ground deformation and motion caused by the Mw 8.2 earthquake in Iquique, Chile on April 1, 2014. A new analysis of the data shows that while a big earthquake was expected for the area, this one wasn't it. (Credit: Sergey Samsonov, Natural Resources Canada)\" width=\"400\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/iquique-3-large.jpg 400w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/iquique-3-large-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2746\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This satellite radar image shows the ground deformation and motion caused by the Mw 8.2 earthquake in Iquique, Chile on April 1, 2014. A new analysis of the data shows that while a big earthquake was expected for the area, this one wasn&#8217;t it. (Credit: Sergey Samsonov, Natural Resources Canada)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Scientists had long expected a major earthquake in the subduction zone adjacent to northern Chile, but the magnitude 8.2 earthquake that occurred on April 1, 2014 was not it, according to a new study. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Stress along the fault had been building since the last major quake in the area occurred in 1877. However, an analysis of the seismic data from the earthquake that damaged Iquique, Chile earlier this year shows that only part of the stress has been relieved. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The authors expect future large quakes to the south and potentially to the north of the Iquique sequence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1038\/nature13677\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in\u00a0the journal\u00a0<em>Nature<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>August 13, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Gavin Hayes, United States Geological Survey<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sergey Samsonov, Natural Resources Canada<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists had long expected a major earthquake in the subduction zone adjacent to northern Chile, but the magnitude 8.2 earthquake that occurred on April 1, 2014 was not it, according to a new study. Stress along the fault had been building since the last major quake in the area occurred in 1877. However, an analysis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2746,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1455,215,1457,2109],"class_list":["post-2754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-earthquakes","tag-environment","tag-geology","tag-plate-tectonic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/iquique-3-large.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-Iq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2754"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2762,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754\/revisions\/2762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}