The correct answer is: Chile.
The largest recorded earthquake in the world occurred in Chile on May 22, 1960. It had a magnitude of 9.5, the largest ever recorded since the advent of modern seismographs in the late 1800s. This earthquake was centered near the town of Valdivia, about 700 kilometers south of Santiago.
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1. -Earthquakes are sudden movements of the earth caused by the abrupt release of accumulated strain along a fault in the interior. Which is the fault that caused the 1964 Alaskan earthquake of magnitude 9.2: the Denali fault, the New Madrid fault, the San Andreas fault, or the North Anatolian fault?
2. How do the hypocenter and the epicenter of an earthquake differ?
3. True or false: Earthquakes (or more properly "Moonquakes") can occur on the Moon?
4. What is "paleoseismology"?
5. The rock band, Steely Dan, posits a fantasy earthquake scenario concerning the San Andreas fault when they sing: "California tumbles into the sea". Name the tune that contains this lyric.
6. Where is the New Madrid fault located: Spain, Mexico, the United States, or Morocco?
7. Name the satirical story in which Voltaire, the great writer/philosopher, describes the devastating Lisbon earthquake of 1755.
8. What is the term used for a minor tremor of the earth that precedes a larger earthquake and that originates at approximately the same location: preshock, foreshock, shock jock, or anteshock?
9. Which continent has the fewest number of earthquakes?
10. In Greek mythology, who is the god of earthquakes?
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