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Warning signs of the Iquique earthquake

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An earthquake off Chile in 2014 occurred in a region where a great seismic event was expected. Two studies reveal that months of foreshocks and slow slip on the associated plate-boundary fault preceded the event. See Letters p.295 & p.299

The most common question asked of an earthquake researcher is “When is the next Big One?” In short, the answer is “We don't know”. But there is evidence that, at least in some cases, the answer could be more precise. In this issue, two studies1,2 of the earthquake (magnitude 8.2) that occurred at Iquique, northern Chile, on 1 April 2014 suggest that a range of geophysical measurements collected in recent years indicated both a high overall earthquake probability and an increased short-term hazard in the region.

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Figure 1: Tectonic setting of the Iquique earthquake, 1 April 2014.

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  1. Roland Bürgmann is in the Department of Earth & Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720-4767, USA.,

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Bürgmann, R. Warning signs of the Iquique earthquake. Nature 512, 258–259 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature13655

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