RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The central coast of Peru is the area of the South American Pacific where a mega-earthquake of magnitude 8.9 could give rise to the highest tsunami, according to a Chilean study whose simulations show an inundation range for this location between 25 and 45 meters.
In Chile, the simulations showed the worst scenarios for the northern sectors of Arica and Iquique, where the tsunamis would exceed 30 meters in height, in the first case, and would be between 35 and 40 meters in the second.
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