The April 2014 Chilean earthquake occurred as the Nazca Plate slipped eastward beneath South America's continental crust.
Sources
- What Caused the Chilean Earthquake? Faults Explained (nationalgeographic.com)
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5363922/ (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0012821X16301844 (sciencedirect.com)
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