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has discovered evidenceThe earthquake struck about 3,800 years ago in what is now northern Chile when a tectonic plate rupture raised the region's coastline. Its devastating repercussions drove human populations away from neighboring coastlines for 1,000 years.
"It had been thought that there could not be an event of that size in the north of the country simply because you could not get a long enough rupture," James Goff, a co-author of the new study, and a geologist at the University of Southampton in England,."But we have now found evidence of a rupture that's about one thousand kilometres long just off the Atacama Desert coast and that is massive.
in marine and coastal items like littoral deposits, such as boulders, pebbles, and sand native to coastal regions, and marine rocks, shells, and sea life. The team discovered these items displaced far inland in Chile's Atacama Desert.
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