Megamodels: Chile's insurance sector sharpens up
Megamodels: Chile’s insurance sector sharpens up Posted on A photo taken of a destroyed factory near Corral, Chile, after a tsunami resulting from the Valdivia earthquake in 1960. Credit: Buonasera, Wikipedia Commons In 1960, Chile experienced an earthquake that shook the region for nearly ten minutes. The Valdivia earthquake, as it was eventually named, triggered a tsunami with waves more than 38 feet (12 meters) tall that devastated parts of the Chilean coast. As host to the most powerful quake ever recorded — estimated between magnitude 9.4 and 9.6 — South America, an...