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The 2007 Pisco, Peru earthquake ruptured two patches (red contour lines) of the plate interface along which the Nazca plate slides under South America at about 6 cm/yr (red arrows).
The black dots show the aftershocks triggered by this earthquake.
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Two other large earthquakes ruptured the plate interface in 1974 and 1996 (green areas).
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Credit: Tectonics Observatory, California Institute of Technology
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