On February 27th the 5th largest earthquake shook the South American country of Chile. The quake was 8.8 magnitude and caused many deaths, lots of damage, and a city to be moved. Scientists have been studying the earthquake and calculating measurements and have found that the city of Concepcion Chile has geographically moved 10 feet to the west. Scientists along with GPS systems are able to take measurements after a quake and compare them to before and figure out the results of the earths movement.
The earthquake also effected other areas of South America;
Buenos Aires the capital of Argentina (on the other side of the continent) moved 1 inch to the west. Chiles capital, Santiago moved about 11 inches west-southwest.
That is crazy that the ground can move that much!
