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Jian Lin pointing to a bulding in Concepcion damaged by Chile earthquake.

Jian Lin pointing to a bulding in Concepcion damaged by Chile earthquake.
Jian Lin pointing to a bulding in Concepcion damaged by Chile earthquake.
Jian Lin pointing to a bulding in Concepcion damaged by Chile earthquake.
Jian Lin pointing to a bulding in Concepcion damaged by Chile earthquake.
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Jian Lin pointing to a bulding in Concepcion damaged by Chile earthquake.
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09/17/2010
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WHOI geophysicist Jian Lin pointed to a building in the city of Concepcion that was knocked over by the 27 Feb. 2010 magnitude 8.8 Chile earthquake.
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WHOI geophysicist Jian Lin points to a 12-story building in Concepcion, Chile, that was upended and toppled by the magnitude 8.8 earthquake on February 27, 2010. Luckily, the building was unoccupied at the time. According to Lin, who has conducted extensive research on how earthquakes interact through the transfer of stress in space and time, the quake occurred on a wide fault plane extending from offshore to beneath Chile where stress had been accumulating since a magnitude 9.5 quake in 1960.
Photo by Dr. HungJui Tsai, Taiwan National Ocean University
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
This image has been approved for IOD use only. For any other usage, please contact Jian Lin.
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