@article{FariasVargasTassaraetal.2010, author = {Far{\"i}as, Marcelo and Vargas, Gabriel and Tassara, Andr{\´e}s and Carretier, S{\´e}bastien and Baize, St{\´e}phane and Melnick, Daniel and Bataille, Klaus}, title = {Land-level changes produced by the M-w 8.8 2010 Chilean earthquake}, issn = {0036-8075}, doi = {10.1126/science.1192094}, year = {2010}, abstract = {We observed vertically displaced coastal and river markers after the 27 February 2010 Chilean earthquake [moment magnitude (Mw) 8.8]. Land-level changes range between 2.5 and -1 meters, evident along an ~500-kilometers- long segment identified here as the maximum length of coseismic rupture. A hinge line located 120 kilometers from the trench separates uplifted areas, to the west, from subsided regions. A simple elastic dislocation model fits these observations well; model parameters give a similar seismic moment to seismological estimates and suggest that most of the plate convergence since the 1835 great earthquake was elastically stored and then released during this event.}, language = {en} }