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Nationality
  
American

Name
  
George Plafker

Fields
  

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Born
  
March 29, 1929 (age 95) Upland, Pennsylvania (
1929-03-29
)

Institutions
  
U.S. Army Corp of EngineersUnited States Geological SurveyChevron Corporation

Institution
  
United States Army Corps of Engineers, United States Geological Survey, Chevron Corporation

George Plafker is an American geologist and seismologist who has made significant contributions to both fields, with research focused on subduction, tsunami, and the geology of Alaska. Following prolonged study of the region of the 1964 Alaska earthquake, Plafker correctly concluded that the largest earthquakes are the result of fault slip at convergent boundaries. This was at a time when the theory of plate tectonics was still not completely accepted by the scientific community. Additional studies were done in Chile in the late 1960s regarding the series of earthquakes there.

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George Plafker Wikipedia


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