The tectonic activity along the Ring of Fire also results in about 90% of the world’s earthquakes, including the Valdivia Earthquake of Chile in 1960, the strongest recorded earthquake at 9.5 ...
the speaker interviews seismologist H.I.S. Thirlaway regarding the 1960 Valdivia earthquake in Chile. Thirlaway discusses the human consequences of earthquakes, engineering solutions that might help ...