Seismologists at the California Institute of Technology have discovered four active volcanoes in the central Andes.
"We can't predict the fault where they will happen and we can't tell exactly when they will happen," the seismologist said.
A seismologist will be brought in next week to consult with engineers about the Capitol's fate if another quake were to hit anytime soon.
The examples they consider will be familiar to most seismologists, and to many geologists.
Only a practising seismologist will understand much of what is refer red to, yet no seismologist would use this book to find anything out, because the detail isn't there.
The overall result is an easily readable account of what earthquakes are, where they occur, what happens in them, and what seismologists and earthquake engineers do.
The scientists who study these phenomena come from many and varied sectors: seismologists, geologists, oceanologists, forestry experts and others.
Seismologists say that there are 13 areas which are of comparable richness adjacent to this strike.