Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
Learning From Earthquakes

Geologic Aspects of the M=8.8 February 27, 2010 Chile Earthquake

September 25, 2018

By Keith Kelson, David Frost, Christian Ledezma, Robb Moss, Nicholas Sitar, and Rob Witter. 

March 2010, Geo-engineering Extreme Events Reconnaissance. Presentation summarizing observations from Geo-engineering Extreme Events Reconnaissance team.

Team members: Pedro Arduino, Univ. of Washington; Scott Ashford, Oregon State Univ.; Dominic Assimaki, Georgia Tech; Jonathan Bray, UC Berkeley; R. Boroschek, Universidad de Chile; Gabriel Candia, UC Berkeley; Terry Eldridge, Golder & Assoc.; Aldo Faúndez, Servicio de Salud Arauco; Tara Hutchinson, UC San Diego; Laurie Johnson, Laurie Johnson Consulting; Katherine Jones, UC Berkeley; Rob Kayen, US Geological Survey; Gonzalo Montalva, Universidad de Concepcion; Sebastian Maureira, Universidad de Chile; George Mylonakis, Univ. of Patras; Scott Olson, Univ. of Illinois; Kyle Rollins, Brigham Young Univ.; Jonathan Stewart, UC Los Angeles; Alfredo Urzua, Boston College; & Ramon Verdugo, Universidad de Chile; Chilean Air Force

See the full presentation slides: Geologic Aspects of the M = 8.8 February 27, 2010 Chile Earthquake (2.5 MB PDF)