A gigantic tsunami-unleashing earthquake that struck northern Chile 3,800 years ago wreaked such devastation on coastal populations, it took 1,000 years for humans to return to the shore, scientists say.
. It serves as a grim warning of the destructive potential of major tsunamigenic earthquakes that may have previously escaped our notice.
due to its proximity to the convergence of the Nazca and South American tectonic plates, with the former being subducted under the latter.in southern Chile; thousands of years prior, it seems the same tectonic tensions led to an equally diabolical yet undocumented precursor in the north of the country.
Readings from several of the deposit sites suggest the existence of a"tectonic event that would have uplifted littoral deposits all along the study region, generated a paleotsunami, and triggered social disruption at a regional scale," the researchersAt the time of the event, the people living in this part of the world were hunter-gatherer communities.
With time and the passing of dozens of generations, the local people's boldness grew, and people eventually made their way back to the ocean about 1,000 years later.
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