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Chile earthquake of 2010
A collapsed building in Concepción, Chile, following an earthquake, 2010.
Following the magnitude-8.8 Chile earthquake of 2010, the initial event was succeeded in the following weeks by hundreds of aftershocks. Many of these subsequent tremors reached a magnitude of 5.0 or greater.1