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Mar 29, 1929 Upland, Pennsylvania, United States 95 years old
American geologist
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About George Plafker
- 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.
