Mar 01

Why was the Chilean Tsunami so Small?

Tag: Earthquakes,Geology,Geophysics,Natural Disasters,TsunamiMichael Reilly @ 8:24 pm
For the people of the Juan Fernandez Islands and the coastal town of Talcahuano in Chile, Saturday morning's tsunami certainly didn't feel small. On the heels of a titanic magnitude 8.8 earthquake, surges of ocean water over 7 feet high ...