Aleuy said Chile is the most seismically active in the world and was hit by the largest earthquake ever detected -- the Valdivia earthquake of 1960 measuring 9.5 on the Richter scale.
Patricio Aceituno, dean of physical science at the University of Chile, called the country a natural laboratory which can collect in a month the same amount of data that other countries would spend years to compile.
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