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History is what happens in-between successive disasters. Prograde, long-period surface waves emerged first in the 1960 Chile earthquake and reappeared in 2010. The importance of economic resilience and regional development is discussed. Megaquakes may occur repeatedly in the same region but never exactly in the same place or the same way. Exponentially rising disaster costs are not sustainable.
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Castaños, H., Lomnitz, C. (2012). The 2010 Chile Earthquake. In: Earthquake Disasters in Latin America. SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2810-3_7
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