Last week’s Chilean earthquake was so powerful that the city of Concepción moved three metres to the west. This will be one of the most studied and important earthquakes of all time, says scientists.
Seismology
Crikey Clarifier: What’s with all the earthquakes lately?
A magnitude 8.3 earthquake strikes the south of Samoa on Tuesday, triggering a tsunami. Then, 16 hours later, another occurs 30 miles off the east coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. What’s going on?







