However, in larger events, the length of the fault rupture is much longer, and damage can be spread across the rupture zone.

The rupture zone of the 1978 earthquake occurred at the westernmost limit of known interplate earthquakes, some 150 km back from the trench.

This deepest part of the rupture zone, about 40 km, is interpreted to represent the depth of transition to aseismic creep on the plate interface.

Much of the rupture zone of the 1942 earthquake overlapped with that of the 1996 Nazca earthquake.

The rupture zone of the 1942 earthquake was about 40 km longer than that of the 1996 earthquake.

The rupture zone has been subdivided into five areas with respect to seismic modelling (Mitsui et al., 2004).

In total about 200 km of fault surfaces ruptured, although there was no visible faulting joining the two main rupture zones.

Sandblows also formed along the rupture zone.

However, it occurred on a segment of the fault 100 miles (160 kilometers) to the southeast of the rupture zone of the M9.0 Sumatra earthquake.

This earthquake may have ruptured part of the rupture zone of the earthquake of August 24, 1942.