On the footprints of a major Brazilian Amazon earthquake

Combining historical accounts and seismological studies, three hundred years of dormant information emerged as a source of the largest known seismic event that rocked Brazil since the beginning of our colonization. The probable epicenter location of the 1690 tremor lies on the left bank of the Amazo...

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Main Author: ALBERTO V. VELOSO
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Academia Brasileira de Ciências 2014-09-01
Series:Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652014000301115&lng=en&tlng=en