Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
Learning From Earthquakes

Maule Region Earthquake February 27, 2010 Mw= 8.8

February 19, 2018

By R. Boroschek, P. Soto, and R. Leon.

August 2010, University of Chile Civil Engineering Department

This report presents the records obtained by the strong motion network of the Department of Civil Engineering at stations located between the III and the XV Regions. These records were obtained with Kinemetrics Etna, QDR, SSA-2 or K2 oriented according to the geographical North and analog equipment Kinemetrics SMA-1 whose Azimuth between the North and the longitudinal direction of the equipment is known.

Read the Report: Maulee Region Earthquake February 27, 2010, Mw= 8.8 (8.5 MB PDF)