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Before the 2015 temblor, the most recent large earthquake (that is, magnitude 6.0 or above) took place in 1988.
That temblor, the largest to strike the park since 1980, is part of a series of at least 25 quakes that began in the area on Thursday, 27 March.
In the wake of the Maule temblor, the scientists found, several seismic stations on the frozen continent registered "icequakes," probably due to fracturing of the ice as the planet's crust shook.
After studying seismic data at 42 Antarctic stations from within 6 hours of the Maule temblor, the team found that 12 of the stations registered "clear evidence" of Rayleigh waves generated by the Chile earthquake passing through the crust beneath the ice sheet, in the form of small icequakes.
Five days after the magnitude 7.8 temblor, the number of injured stood at more than 11,000, officials said.
With Japan facing a mounting economic crisis in the wake of Friday's magnitude-8.9 earthquake and deadly tsunami, global insurers are already calling the temblor the world's "most costliest" catastrophe.
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The temblor was the strongest to strike the region since the magnitude-9.5 event of 1960, considered to be the most powerful earthquake ever recorded.
The footage below also shows the temblor rattling the shelves of a store in Istanbul, Turkey.
The rest were killed by the temblor and the chaos it induced.
At 2 28 a.m. on Nov. 8 the temblor shook the span from its perch.
Researchers got their latest clues to the precise location of the 1202 temblor from the castle of Vadum Jacob, built by Latin crusaders in 1178 and sacked by Muslims 1 year later.
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