Limited overlap between the seismic gap and coseismic slip of the great 2010 Chile earthquake

The Mw 8.8 Chile earthquake on 27 February 2010 occurred in a broad region where tectonic loading has been accumulating since the great 1835 earthquake. A joint inversion of tsunami and geodetic data suggests that the 2010 earthquake rupture only partly overlapped with the zone of preseismic locking.