• USGS Earthquake Hazards Program

    USGS Earthquake Hazards Program, responsible for monitoring, reporting, and researching earthquakes and earthquake hazards Jump to Navigation The USGS has restored primary functionality to the earthquake website following the problems on 09/02/2022, but lingering effects may persist for a few days.

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  • Natural Hazards Monitoring

     · Chile. Natural Hazards Monitoring 10 December 2021 Format News and Press Release Source. PAHO; Posted 18 Dec 2021 Originally published 10 Dec 2021 Origin View original. Official. Wildfire. Chile ...

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  • Did Pinochetera deregulation cause Chile's worstever wildfires?

     · Chile's eucalyptus and pine plantation owners, accused of putting profit before safety. These fires, which were burning since January were some of the countries largest. The reason for this event? The plantations were much too large and close to communities and eucalyptus is known to burn well. Furthermore, the pine trees have highly flammable pine .

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  • Geography of Chile

    This latter earthquake occurred on May 22, the day after another major quake measuring on the Richter scale, and covered an extensive section of southcentral Chile. It caused a tsunami that decimated several fishing villages in the south and raised or lowered sections of the coast as much as two meters.

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  • Chile's Most Prominent Hazards

     · ThinkHazard says Chile's earthquake hazard is classified as high, meaning there is more than a 20% chance of a potentiallydamaging earthquake taking place in the country in the next 50 years. Chile has had 13 major earthquakes in the last 30 years, and boasts the largest earthquake ever recorded (a M in Santiago, 1960 fyi), AND many of these quakes trigger .

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  • Bridgestone Americas, Inc. | Tires Are Just The Beginning

    Aug 29 Bridgestone and AWS Announce Strategic Relationship Focused on Platform Development and Launch of New Customer Solutions. Aug 29 Bridgestone Aims to Commercialize Natural Rubber from Desert Shrubs by 2030. Aug 25 Bridgestone Announces 550 Million Expansion and 380 new manufacturing jobs for Warren County, Tennessee Truck .

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  • Glacier Hazards in Chile — University of Bristol

    Explore the research topics touched on by this project. These labels are generated based on the underlying awards/grants. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

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  • Strong earthquake hits Antofagasta, Chile at intermediate .

     · The predominant vulnerable building types are adobe block and rubble/field stone masonry construction. Recent earthquakes in this area have caused secondary hazards such as landslides that might have contributed to losses. Estimated population exposure to earthquake shaking Selected cities exposed Regional seismicity

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  • Major Hazards on Construction Sites

     · With vehicles, plant, equipment and movement of materials, the busy nature of construction sites means that moving objects frequently results in onsite fatalities – 20 (11%) of deaths in 201516 alone. Particular risk comes from cranes and plant, including forklifts, plus the actual volume of traffic which can form part of a working site ...

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  • Hazards Planning in Chile: An Interview with Luis Cifuentes

    Jim Schwab, AICP, Manager of APA's Hazards Planning Research Center, interviews Luis Cifuentes from the National Research Center for Disaster Management in S...

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  • Hazards at Nevados de Chillán Volcano, Chile.

    Hazards at Nevados de Chillán Volcano, Chile. Chavez, R. and Dixon, H. J. and Dunkley, P. N. and Gilbert, J. S. and Naranjo, J. A. and Sparks, R. S. J. and Young, S ...

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  • Story Map of Central Chile Earthquake and Tsunami, September .

    NCEI (formerly NGDC) and the colloed World Data Service for Geophysics have compiled a unique set of tsunamirelated products as part of a continuing program to support the interests of engineers, oceanographers, seismologists, and the general public.

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  • Reducing risk from lahar hazards: concepts, case studies, and .

     · Lahars are rapid flows of mud–rock slurries that can occur without warning and astrophically impact areas more than 100 km downstream of source volcanoes. Strategies to mitigate the potential for damage or loss from lahars fall into four basic egories: (1) avoidance of lahar hazards through landuse planning; (2) modifiion of lahar hazards through .

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  • ChilePeru border closed over landmine hazard

     · Chile planted thousands of antitank and antipersonnel mines along its northern border in the 1970s during a period of tension with Peru. In recent years it has been working to demine the area.

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  • GDACS

    Map of disaster alerts in the past 4 days. European Union, 2022. Map produced by designations employed and the presentation of material on the map do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the European Union concerning the legal status of any country, territory or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or .

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  • How the Chile Earthquake Went Nuclear |

    Michael Reilly at Discovery News posted an interesting article titled "How the Chile Earthquake Went Nuclear". He writes: If you want to grow a truly massive earthquake, you've got to give it space. Scientists have known this basic fact for years more powerful earthquakes ramp up the shaking by breaking along huge stretches of faults. The ...

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  • Environmental hazards in Chile's mines | Latin America Bureau

     · Afshin Rattansi goes underground on how the mining of its resources are linked to environmental disaster, and the London Stock Exchange. Patricio Bustamante Diaz, ArcheoAstronomist and Community Advisor in the mining community of Caimanes, Chile, discusses the effects of copper mining on the environment. Video: RTUnderground. May 2016

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  • Tsunamis: Hazard Definition and Effects on Facilities

    however, the tsunami generated off the coast of chile by this earthquake not only killed more than 300 people in chile and caused widespread devastation, but it also killed 61 people in hawaii and produced widespread destruction in distant japan where 199 people were killed, 5000 structures wrecked or washed away, and more than 7500 boats wrecked .

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  • Chile

     · In 2020, the sector produced million tons of copper and 70 thousand tons of Lithium Carbonate Equivalent (LCE) in 2019. Chile's world copper market share is 28 percent and lithium production market share is 23 percent. The mining sector's contribution to the country's GDP was 11 percent and represented over half of the country's ...

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  • Chile A Story of Gold and Quicksilver

    This crushed ore is shoveled over the lip of each bowl at the rate of 600800 Lbs per hour, about ten tons per 24hour day. Oneman operations are not unusual in single trapiche mills. All operating installations are labor intensive. The wage of a laborer, working 12hour days, is about 200 per month.

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  • Hazards

    Hazards Chile earthquake. STUDY. Flashcards. Learn. Write. Spell. Test. PLAY. Match. Gravity. Created by. samkerry789. Terms in this set (9) Date? 27th February 2010. How many killed and injured? 500 killed and 12,000 injured. How many homes destroyed? 220,000 homes ...

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