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Chile Recovers From 2010 M8.8 Earthquake

Read the Report: Chile Recovers From 2010 M8.8 Earthquake (1.0 MB PDF) For further updates from MRP Engineering of the recovery in Chile please visit the MRP website

Soil Liquefaction Observations

 About 5 hours after the earthquake I went down to the shore of the Villarrica Lake Temuco, and observed a very strange phenomena. Some googling showed that a possible explanation is soil liquefaction. This was later confirmed by Lisa Wald from USGS who recommended posting on this website. On some places at the beach, which is essentially […]

Preliminary Report on Geotechnical Effects of the 2010 Chile Earthquake

GEER Team Leaders: Jonathan Bray, UC Berkeley; Terry Elderidge, Golder Associates; David Frost, Georgia Tech; Youssef Hashash, University of Illinois; Robert Kayen, US Geological Survey; Christian Ledezma, Pontificia Univ. Catolica de Chile; Rob Moss, California Polytechnic Univ., San Luis Obispo; Ramon Verdugo, Universidad de Chile. Lead Authors: Pedro Arduino, Scott Ashford, Dominic Assimaki, Jonathan Bray, […]

USGS Reports on the 1985 Chilean Earthquake

Preliminary report of investigations of the central Chile earthquake of March 3, 1985 by Sylvester Theodore Algermissen Seismic site-response experiments following the March 3, 1985 central Chile earthquake (topographical and geological effects) edited by Mehmet Celebi Processed Chile earthquake records of 3 March 1985 and aftershocks compiled by Mehmet Celebi