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The Chilean government implemented a new emergency alert technology, although this was due to an earthquake in 2010. The system uses a geographically-targeted area to allow officials to send mass alerts to citizens, whether it be on a computer, television, radio or mobile phone. Technology like this was not as advanced in the 1960's, but could save more lives as time goes on.

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Occurred on May 22nd, 1960 near Valdivia, in Southern Chile. The United States Geological surveyers have declared this event to be the largest earthquake measured on the Richter scale.

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Two days later, the Cordon-Caule volcano in Los Lagos erupted after 40 years of inactivity. Scientists largely thought that the eruption was due to the quake.

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Estimates were higher at the time, but 1600 people were confirmed as dead, while over 3000 were injured.

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The waves created by this quake were seen in Japan. From this map, the large laceration in the ocean floor can be seen, stretching from Valdivia to Bolivia.

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Aid efforts cannot always fulfill the tasks at hand to help people recover from earthquakes. Sometimes the governments of certain countries are forced to spend only 1%  (for example) of the GDP on natural disaster aid. Thus, the national hospitals are unable to cope with the mass amounts of injury from these natural disasters.

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The Earthquake ruptured a 500-mile long zone on the ocean floor from Chiloe island North towards Talca. It is known as a megathrust earthquake, occurring at destructive converging plate boundaries. In this case, the Valdivia quake happened 20 miles into the crust, beneath where the Nazca Plate is subducting beneath the South American Plate.

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The quake occurred beneath the Pacific Ocean, 100 miles off the coast of Chile (Western South America). The ground tremors destroyed thousands of buildings. The earthquake was reported to have been preceded by a powerful fore-shock, which acted as a warning for millions of citizens. The cost of the damage that displaced over 2,000,000 people is estimated to be around $6 billion USD, adjusted to today's currency.

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The United States Geological Survey also recorded five-feet of sibsidence along the lower Chilean coastline, near Chiloe Island. This left numerous buildings submerged.

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The main earthquake was preceeded by four accounted fore-shocks. All four of these fore-shocks had a magnitude of 7.0 or higher. The initial magnitude for the quake on May 22nd was 8.5, although the USGS later dubbed the earthquake to be a 9.5 on the Richter Scale, the largest ever on record.

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Manning, K. (2012, September 25). Chile hopes earthquake technology can help save lives. Retrieved May 14, 2018, from BBC News website: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19589471

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Most of the deaths and destruction occurred near the coastline by a series of tsunamis generated by the earthquake. 35-foot tsunamis hit the coasts of Hawaii, Japan, and even parts of California. A monster 80 foot wave hit the coastline of Chile.