Sunday, September 09, 2007

Peru's quake makes local experts tremble - OregonLive.com

Peru's quake makes local experts tremble - OregonLive.com: "Subduction zones have produced the planet's two largest recorded earthquakes. A magnitude 9.5 quake and tsunami -- on the same Peru-Chile Subduction Zone involved in Peru's quake -- hit Chile in 1960 and killed 5,000 people. A 9.2 quake struck southern Alaska in 1964, launching a tsunami that killed four children at Gleneden Beach in Oregon and 11 people in Crescent City, Calif."

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