The Chile-2015 (Illapel) Earthquake and Tsunami

This volume presents a collection of contributions that were published in "Pure and Applied Geophysics - pageoph" and which deals with the major earthquake that hit Illapel, Chile on September 16, 2015 with magnitude 8.3, and associated trans-oceanic tsunami. The subducting Nazca plate beneath the Andes caused this major earthquake, generating strong shaking, permanent deformation, free oscillations of the Earth, and tsunamis. This event occurred in the flat-angle subducting segment of the plate.The generated tsunami spread throughout the entire Pacific Ocean and was recorded by numerous coastal tide gauges and open-ocean DART stations.

All articles give an up-to-date account of research in one of the most active seismic zones worldwide. An introductory article by Kenji Satake rounds this collection off.

Preface.- A Review of Source Models of the 2015 Illapel, Chile Earthquake and Insights from Tsunami Data.- Rapidly Estimated Seismic Source Parameters for the 16 September 2015 Illapel, Chile M w 8.3 Earthquake.- Rupture Process During the 2015 Illapel, Chile Earthquake: Zigzag-Along-Dip Rupture Episodes.- Interseismic Coupling, Megathrust Earthquakes and Seismic Swarms Along the Chilean Subduction Zone (38°–18°S).- Low-Frequency Centroid Moment Tensor Inversion of the 2015 Illapel Earthquake from Superconducting-Gravimeter Data.- Coseismic Fault Slip of the September 16, 2015 Mw 8.3.-  Illapel, Chile Earthquake Estimated from InSAR Data.- Imaging Rupture Process of the 2015 Mw 8.3.- Illapel Earthquake Using the US Seismic Array.-  Chile2015: Lévy Flight and Long-Range Correlation Analysis of Earthquake Magnitudes in Chile.- Analysis of the Illapel Mw = 8.3 Thrust Earthquake Rupture Zone Using GOCE-Derived Gradients .- Time-Based Network Analysis Before and After the M w 8.3Illapel Earthquake 2015 Chile.- Chilean Earthquakes: Aquifer Responses at the Russian Platform.- Ionospheric Plasma Response to M w 8.3 Chile Illapel Earthquake on September 16, 2015.- Remote Sensing of Atmospheric and Ionospheric Signals Prior to the Mw 8.3 Illapel Earthquake, Chile 2015.- Chile2015: Induced Magnetic Fields on the Z Component by Tsunami Wave Propagation.- First Report on Seismogenic Magnetic Disturbances over Brazilian Sector.- The 16 September 2015 Chile Tsunami from the Post-Tsunami Survey and Numerical Modeling Perspectives.- Field Survey of the 2015 Chile Tsunami with Emphasis on Coastal Wetland and Conservation Areas.- A Study of the 2015 M w 8.3 Illapel Earthquake and Tsunami: Numerical and Analytical Approaches.- Real-Time Assessment of the 16 September 2015 Chile Tsunami and Implications for Near-Field Forecast.- Comparison Between Tsunami Signals Generated by Different Source Models and the Observed Data of the Illapel 2015 Earthquake.- Tsunami Characteristics Along the Peru–Chile Trench: Analysis of the 2015 Mw8.3 Illapel, the 2014 Mw8.2 Iquique and the 2010 Mw8.8 Maule Tsunamis in the Near-field.- Tsunami Penetration in Tidal Rivers, with Observations of the Chile 2015 Tsunami in Rivers in Japan.