Fifty years ago this month, a massive earthquake in Chile broke new ground in seismic science. Roff Smith looks back at the largest quake ever recorded.
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Roff Smith is a freelance writer based in Hastings, UK.
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Smith, R. Seismology: The biggest one. Nature 465, 24–25 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/465024a
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