Chile earthquake moved whole city 10 feet to the west

ခ်ီလီငလ်င္ေႀကာင္ ့ၿမဳိ ့ႀကီးတစ္ခုလံုး ၁၀ ေပမွ်အေနာက္သုိ ့

ေရြ ့လ်ားသြားခဲ ့ရ...

ငလ်င္ဒါဏ္ေႀကာင္ ့ေရြ ့သြားခဲ ့ရတဲ ့ၿမဳိ ့မ်ားနဲ ့ေရြ ့လ်ားခဲ ့၇တဲ ့အကြာအေ၀းမ်ား...

A graphic created by the Central and Southern Andes GPS Project. It shows the displacement in centimetres of the area surrounding the Chile earthquake epicentre. Concepcion moved the furthest at 303.9cm

ခ်ီလီနုိင္ငံ၊ Maule ၿမဳိ ့အနီးတြင္ ဗဟုိၿပဳ၍အၿပင္းအထန္လွဳပ္ခဲ ့ေသာငလ်င္ႀကီးေႀကာင္ ့Concepcion
ဆုိေသာၿမဳိ ့မွာ အနည္းဆံုး ၁၀ ေပမွ် အေနာက္ဖက္ပုိင္းသုိ ့ေရြ ့လ်ားသြားခဲ ့ရသည္ဟု ကြ်မ္းက်င္သူ
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အေဆာက္အဦးေတာင္ ႏွစ္ၿခမ္းကဲြသြားတယ္...

A destroyed building in Concepcion, Chile. The whole city shifted 10feet to the west as a result of the February earthquake

လြန္ခဲ ့တဲ ့ေဖေဖာ္၀ါရီလ ၂၇ ရက္ေန ့ကၿဖစ္ေပၚခဲ ့တဲ ့ေၿမငလ်င္ရဲ ့ဒါဏ္ေႀကာင္ ့ၿဖစ္ေပၚလာတဲ ့အက်ဴိး
သက္ေရာက္မွဳကုိ GPS ဟုေခၚဆုိေသာ ( Global Positioning System ) ၿဖင္ ့ ငလ်င္မလွဳပ္မီအေၿခအ
ေနနွင္ ့ငလ်င္လွဳပ္ၿပီး ဆယ္ရက္ႀကာ အေၿခအေနတုိ ့ကုိ တိက်စြာတုိင္းတာနုိင္ခဲ ့ပါတယ္...
ထုိသုိ ့တုိင္းတာမွဳမ်ားေႀကာင္ ့ခ်ီလီနုိင္ငံရဲ ့ၿမဳိ ့ေတာ္ ဆန္တီေယဂုိက အေနာက္ေတာင္ဘက္ကုိ ၁၁
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ၿဗဴနုိေအရီးစ္ ေတာင္မွ တစ္လက္မေလာက္ ေရြ ့သြားခဲ ့ရပါတယ္တဲ ့...
ယခုလွဳပ္ခဲ ့တဲ  ့ေၿမငလ်င္ဟာ သိပၸံနည္းက်ေၿမငလ်င္တုိင္းကိရိယာမ်ားေပၚေပါက္လာၿပီးေနာက္စတင္
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ေစခဲ ့တယ္လို ့အေမရိကန္ အာကာသ သိပၸံအဖဲြ ့နာဆာက ပညာရွင္ ေဒါက္တာရစ္ခ်တ္ဂေရာ ့စ္ ကခန္ ့
မွန္းေၿပာဆုိခဲ ့ပါတယ္...
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 အဲဒီေလာက္ေ၀းကြာတဲ ့ေဒသက ေၿမေနရာေတြပါ ေရြ ့လ်ားကုန္ပါတယ္...

The earthquake shifted land as far apart as the Falkland Islands and Fortaleza, Brazil

ထုိငလ်င္ရဲ ့ ၿပင္းအားဗဟုိခ်က္မဟာ ပစိဖိတ္သမုဒၵရာကုိ ၀န္းရံေနတဲ ့အဓိက ေၿမငလ်င္ေႀကာမ်ားတည္
ရွိရာ မီးကြင္းဇုန္ လုိ ့ေခၚဆုိႀကတဲ ့ ေတာင္အေမရိကေဒသမွာ ၿဖစ္ေပၚခဲ ့တာ ၿဖစ္ပါတယ္..
ထုိေဒသလမ္းေႀကာင္းတစ္ေလွ်ာက္ ကမာၻ ့ငလ်င္လွဳပ္ေႀကာမ်ားရဲ ့ဗဟုိခ်က္မ ဇံုတြင္ကမာၻ ့တုိက္ႀကီး
မ်ား၏ေၿမလႊာမ်ား အခ်င္းခ်င္းတုိက္မိႀကေလ ့ရွိပါတယ္...

အုိဟုိင္းအုိတကၠသုိလ္မွ ေဒါက္တာမုိက္ဘီဗစ္ ဟာ GPS စနစ္ကုိသံုးၿပီး ခ်ီလီနုိင္ငံရဲ ့ေၿမမ်က္နွာသြင္ၿပင္
ကုိေလ ့လာစမ္းစစ္တဲ ့CAP စီမံကိန္းကုိ 1993 ခုႏွစ္ကတည္းက ဦးေဆာင္ခဲ ့တာၿဖစ္ပါတယ္...
ထုိေနရာေဒသဟာ Nazca လို ့ေခၚတဲ ့သမုဒၵရာႀကမ္းၿပင္မ်ားဟာ ေတာင္အေမရိကတုိက္ရဲ ့ေၿမလႊာမ်ား
နဲ ့ေရြ ့လ်ားတုိက္ခုိက္မိႀကၿပီး ႀကိတ္ေၿခကာ ကမာၻေၿမႀကီးရဲ ့ေအာက္ေၿခအတြင္း အလြန္ပူၿပင္းစြာအရည္
ေပ်ာ္ေနတဲ ့ေခ်ာ္ရည္လႊာမ်ားၿဖစ္ေစေနပါတယ္...

ထုုိေၿမလႊာမ်ားထိတုိက္မွဳၿဖစ္စဥ္ေႀကာင္ ့ဘူမိကမၺလာဖိအားမ်ားၿဖစ္ထြန္းေစၿပီး လြန္ခဲ ့တဲ ့ေဖေဖာ္၀ါရီလ
က ခ်ီလီငလ်င္ႀကီးကုိ ၿဖစ္ေပၚေစခဲ ့ပါတယ္...
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ၿပီးေနာက္ဆက္တဲြ၊ ေနာက္ပုိင္းတြင္ထပ္ၿဖစ္ေလ ့ရွိေသာ ငလ်င္အေသးစားမ်ား ဒါဇင္နဲ ့ခ်ီၿပီးရွိခဲ ့ၿပီး
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စဲြေနတဲ ့GPS စခန္း ၂၅ ခုကေန ထပ္တုိးၿပီးေနာက္ထပ္ စခန္း ၅၀ အထိၿပဳလုပ္ေစာင္ ့ႀကည္ ့နုိင္လိမ္ ့
မယ္လုိ ့ေမွ်ာ္လင္ ့ေနႀကပါတယ္...
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ဟာ၀ုိင္အီတကၠသိုလ္မွ ေလ ့လာေရးအဖဲြ ့၀င္ Ben Brooks ကေတာ ့” ဒီ Maule ငလ်င္ဟာ ေလ ့လာ
ခဲ ့သမွ်ထဲမွာေတာ ့အေရးပါဆံုးမဟုတ္တာေတာင္ အင္အားအၿပင္းဆံုးငလ်င္တစ္ခုပါပဲ...ကြ်န္ေတာ္တုိ ့
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မူရင္းအဂၤလိပ္သတင္းေလးပါ...

The massive earthquake that struck near Maule in Chile, moved the entire city of Concepcion at least 10 feet to the west, experts have revealed.
The destructive event, which measured a magnitude of 8.8, also shifted other parts of South America as far apart as the Falkland Islands and Fortaleza, Brazil. 
Scientists measured the impact of the February 27 earthquake by comparing precise GPS locations from before the event to those 10 days later.
These revealed Chile's capital, Santiago, moved about 11 inches to the southwest. Even Argentina's capital, Buenos Aires, which is 800miles from the epicentre, moved an inch.
The earthquake is believed to be the fifth most powerful since seismic measurements began.
It even knocked Earth a little off its axis. Nasa's Dr Richard Gross calculated the tremors moved the axis about which Earth's mass is balanced by about three inches. It even shortened the length of the day by about one-millionth of a second.
The quake’s epicentre was in a region of South America that’s part of the so-called 'ring of fire', an area of major seismic stresses which encircles the Pacific Ocean.

All along this line, the tectonic plates on which the continents move press against each other at fault zones.
Dr Mike Bevis from Ohio University, has led the CAP project since 1993 that uses GPS to analyse the crust of Chile.
The area is of particular interest because it is an active subduction zone where the Nazca oceanic plate is colliding with the South American continental plate and being squeezed into the Earth's molten mantle below.
This creates a build up of geologic pressures, which caused the Chilean quake in February.
The US Geological Survey reported that there have been dozens of aftershocks, many exceeding a magnitude 6.0 or greater, since the initial event February 27.ေ
Dr Bevis' team, made up of scientists from U.S and Argentinian universities, hopes to add 50 extra GPS stations to its current 25. This should help them to measure the ongoing movement and deformation of the crust.

Team member Ben Brooks, from  the University of Hawaii said: 'The Maule earthquake will arguably become one of the, if not the most important great earthquake yet studied.
'We now have modern, precise instruments to evaluate this event, and because the site abuts a continent, we will be able to obtain dense spatial sampling of the changes it caused.
'As such the event represents an unprecedented opportunity for the earth science community if certain observations are made with quickly and comprehensively.'