Earthquake in Chile

[OneToughHerring]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8540289.stm

Just a few hours ago there was an earthquake near Japan, now this ~ 8,8 on the Richter scale in Chile. Seems that it was quite deep unlike the one that hit Haiti, a 7,0 shallow quake. Hopefully not much damage in Chile. I wonder if there is something to this recent earthquake activity, the -04 one that led to the tsunami isn't that far back in time either, nor the one that hit Bam in Iran.

Here's a link to the Japan earthquake.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8540063.stm

[Oberon]

There does seem to be a fair bit of quake activity recently, although one could also link this to better reporting and monitoring technology. But, yes, there's a fair bit rumbling around lately, what with Haiti, Japan, Iran.

Wonder how long it'll be before Chavez starts HAARPing on again... :hmmm:

[OneToughHerring]

Yes, Chavez, that's what this all's about...:06:

Looks like there's a serious tsunami on it's way, Easter islands are being evacuated. I guess now we'll find out if the post -04 tsunami improvements to the tsunami warnings in the Pacific actually work or not.

[krashkart]

Must be some major shifting of the plates going on. A fault line gives way somewhere in the chain, the remaining load starts binding up somewhere else. Two in such a short time span, though. :-?

On Chavez: I will posit the theory that Chavez will soon start blathering on about Australia planning imminent invasion of the Venezualan homeland. Personally, I never did trust them Aussies. :D

[krashkart]

Looks like there's a serious tsunami on it's way, Easter islands are being evacuated. I guess now we'll find out if the post -04 tsunami improvements to the tsunami warnings in the Pacific actually work or not.

I hope the tsunami leaves at least a few of those nifty statues, if it does indeed manifest.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Ahu-Akivi-1.JPG/237px-Ahu-Akivi-1.JPG

[OneToughHerring]

I wonder how delayed the US aid will be this time? Probably not as bad as Haiti though.

You see, the Chileans aren't black.

[Dread Knot]

Wonder how long it'll be before Chavez starts HAARPing on again... :hmmm:

If the tsunami hits Hawaii or California I don't think Chavez can blame us for using the "Yankee earthquake weapon" on ourselves. ;)

[krashkart]

:rotfl2::rotfl2:

He might be prompted to tell the world that our Yankee earthquake weapon backfired when we tried to use it on him.

[Dowly]

It's the 2012 thing I tell you. :O:

[OneToughHerring]

I'm sure Pat Robertson will tell us the truth about this tsunami, that it is infact a godless commie-tsunami that waves the Mao's little red book and is all staggered from too much vodka. It's main aim is to create a health care system in the US. Beware of it. *

* This message was brought to you by FEMA - "Doing a Heck of a Job"

[Dread Knot]

EVALUATION

A TSUNAMI HAS BEEN GENERATED THAT COULD CAUSE DAMAGE ALONG
COASTLINES OF ALL ISLANDS IN THE STATE OF HAWAII. URGENT ACTION
SHOULD BE TAKEN TO PROTECT LIVES AND PROPERTY.
[...]
THE ESTIMATED ARRIVAL TIME IN HAWAII OF THE FIRST TSUNAMI WAVE IS

1119 AM HST SAT 27 FEB 2010


Hmmm. I know where the best vantage points are. I wonder if I should grab a surf board and go for a Darwin Award. :DL

[krashkart]

Hmmm. I know where the best vantage points are. I wonder if I should grab a surf board and go for a Darwin Award. :DL

Nah, grab a video camera and share the footage with us instead. :up:

[Dread Knot]

Nah, grab a video camera and share the footage with us instead. :up:

Look Ma! No hands.....or brains either! AAAAAAHHH---. :D

[krashkart]

LMAO :rotfl2:

[Oberon]

Hefty. :hmmm: Wonder how it'll affect Hawaii. Hopefully not that badly, but you never can really tell. At least there's more warning than the Boxing Day tsunami of '04.

[Buddahaid]

I wonder how delayed the US aid will be this time? Probably not as bad as Haiti though.

You see, the Chileans aren't black.

The wheel squeaks again. This time it's all Finlands responsibility per the National Disaster Relief Lottery. :D

[krashkart]

The U.S. aid response will be hampered by partisan haggling and Congressional narcolepsy. Meanwhile, Brangelina and Madonna will appear out of thin air and begin adopting everything on two legs that moves. :D

Don't worry Finland, we gotcha covered. :up:

[Jimbuna]

If the tsunami hits Hawaii or California I don't think Chavez can blame us for using the "Yankee earthquake weapon" on ourselves. ;)

:rotfl2::rotfl2:

He might be prompted to tell the world that our Yankee earthquake weapon backfired when we tried to use it on him.

LOL :DL

[ReFaN]

Hoping for the best, il pray that the Tsunami is a not so lethal one.

[krashkart]

Grats ReFaN! You're stinking drunk in Trinidad! :woot:

Hopefully the damage won't be much more than it already is.

This looks kinda cool, but I hope there wasn't anyone inside.
http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100227/capt.eedaecd063e742ef9994dcd39b828876.aptopix_chil e_earthquake_xem101.jpg?x=400&y=257&q=85&sig=Jc0_xnMVkUhbMHagfsDKXw--

[Oberon]

The sea is going out in Hawaii. The recession before the wave.
There's a good Live footage from a camera overlooking a bay.

http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/Global/category.asp?C=3495

[Weiss Pinguin]

Yeah, my dad's got Fox news up on the TV, right now we're listening to the news team babbling on about the pending tsunami. I think my head hurts.

[Oberon]

It sounds like the entire coast of Hawaii, heck, most of Hawaii itself is out on high ground watching. It's pretty impressive but fairly sedate at the moment. There's already been one recession and flow in which was quite amazing at its speed, not a giant wall of water (although they're far from out of the woods yet) but like the tide coming in on turbo. :doh:

Twitter:
#hitsunami site:twitter.com


Webcam at Wakiki beach:

http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/99999999/MOGULUS02/399990001&template=mogulus

[kiwi_2005]

photos of the quake
http://g1.globo.com/Noticias/0,,GF80197-7023,00-VEJA+FOTOS+DO+TERREMOTO+NO+CHILE.html

[Oberon]

CNN anchor observing person walking on Kauai beach: "That person may not have a radio, a TV, Internet or any common sense

[nikimcbee]

I never did trust them Aussies. :D

:haha:

Just plate tectonics. I wonder if it will generate any tsunamis? or wake Godzilla up?

[OneToughHerring]

Hawaiians, time to run to the hills (http://www.youtube.com/watch#playnext=1&playnext_from=TL&videos=l_0uDz8bsRc&v=3ZlDZPYzfm4). :rock:

[TarJak]

We've got a Tsunami warning current for the next 4 hours. Not that I'm worried...:yeah:
http://www.farecompare.com/editorial/content/rickseaney/lifejacket.jpg

[OneToughHerring]

TarJak,

heh, looks like you're covered.

Overall, looks like more work for AVGWarhawk I guess. :hmmm:

[Castout]

The quake in Chile was quite shallow only 35 km deep that explains why there are quite significant number of victims. As long as people could run during earthquake there's big chance that they could escape from relatively low rise buildings the most dangerous ones are the ones that strike so bad that would even make it hard for people to keep balance much less running because the ground would literally move rapidly and randomly.

And like the man said in the second link that jumpers are the most dangerous movement in earthquake as buildings have no resistance to withstand vertical movement.

[Oberon]

The death toll seems to be currently at 214, I reckon, sadly, it will probably go a bit higher than that, an 8.8'er and the fifty odd aftershocks they've had will have really messed the place up big time.
The Tsunami warning seems to, thankfully, have been a dud, although islands nearer Chile have reported a few hefty waves, Hawaii was pretty much spared so it's likely Japan and Australia will be too. The states should hopefully not get much either. So, that's one potential disaster passed.
Of course, that does nothing to lessen the impact this quake will have had on Chile, thankfully the Chilean infrastructure is far superior to the infrastructure on Haiti so deaths should be nowhere in the region of the two hundred thousand plus that happened on Haiti even though the magnitude of the quake was much greater.

Now, going back to the last big event in the region, the 9.5 which hit Chile in 1960 and caused a pretty significant tsunami, that death toll was anything between 2000-6000, which is a lot, but still less than Haiti. Now Chilean infrastructure and tsunami warning equipment has improved a fair deal in the fifty years which have passed since the 1960 quake, and this quake is a magnitude lower, so no twenty-five foot high tsunamis that we know of (although there are unconfirmed reports of a hundred and thirty foot high tsunami hitting the Juan Fernandez islands, but nothing clear yet).
So hopefully though the death toll will be high, it will not be that high, not as high as it could have been if it had struck in a different place.

It is certainly interesting though, to note, as OTH did in the opening post, that earthquake activity certainly does seem to have perked up a little in the past decade, which more reports of disruptive and powerful quakes from around the globe. Although I strongly doubt it has any fantastical reasoning (ie, 2012, HAARP) it is still an interesting event and perhaps an insight into a cyclic period of increased activity. :hmmm:

[OneToughHerring]

Yea I didn't really mean that someone is 'engineering' earthquakes. *sigh*

Rather what I meant was that these earthquakes seem to be exacting a heavy human toll and also seem to be quite strong in force. The reason behind the high human toll might be things such as population growth, poverty that leads to shoddy buildings that collapse and kill, people living closer to the shores on the line of fire of tsunamis, etc. Even tourism has led to the fact that so many westeners were killed in the -04 tsunami in Thailand, even almost 200 Finns, and much more Swedes.

There are perfectly reasonable, geological reasons behind earthquakes, however this doesn't make them any less able to kill a whole bunch of people.

[CaptainHaplo]

While I am sure there will be some form of Aid offered by most countries - don't expect it to be nearly as large as what is offered to Haiti. While destruction is destruction, the matter of scale is what creates the outpouring of everyday people support. I am not saying thats "right" - but it is the way it is.

[OneToughHerring]

While I am sure there will be some form of Aid offered by most countries - don't expect it to be nearly as large as what is offered to Haiti. While destruction is destruction, the matter of scale is what creates the outpouring of everyday people support. I am not saying thats "right" - but it is the way it is.

How very 'christian' of you to point that out. :roll:

[Oberon]

Eeh, religion doesn't come into it, but I guess that's not what you mean OTH, but it's true what Haplo says, Chile will almost certainly get less than Haiti, because Chile as a country is in better condition than Haiti which has been falling apart for the best part of a decade before the earthquake hit it. As such, as I said, the death toll is likely to be a lot lower than Haiti, as such it is likely the amount of aid provided is also going to scale proportionately. Not Christian indeed, but that's the way the world works.
Oh, and I knew you meant that the quake wasn't engineered by humans, don't worry ;) I'm talking more about the conspiracy nuts that'll claim otherwise.


I'm just waiting for Chavez to claim that the quake was caused by British oil drilling in the Falklands. :03:

[Jimbuna]

Eeh, religion doesn't come into it, but I guess that's not what you mean OTH, but it's true what Haplo says, Chile will almost certainly get less than Haiti, because Chile as a country is in better condition than Haiti which has been falling apart for the best part of a decade before the earthquake hit it. As such, as I said, the death toll is likely to be a lot lower than Haiti, as such it is likely the amount of aid provided is also going to scale proportionately. Not Christian indeed, but that's the way the world works.
Oh, and I knew you meant that the quake wasn't engineered by humans, don't worry ;) I'm talking more about the conspiracy nuts that'll claim otherwise.


I'm just waiting for Chavez to claim that the quake was caused by British oil drilling in the Falklands. :03:

I agree on all points.....but especially the last one :DL

[krashkart]

Give Chavez a soccer ball and he'll try to play chess on it.

I really need to work on my "relevant post" count. lol :)

[CaptainHaplo]

If you gave Chavez a soccer ball, he would look around and say "I thought we nationalized this already".

Aid is moving, and thankfully the fatalities are nowhere near what they were in Haiti. Just goes to show you that regardless of man's actions, nature can take you out.

[krashkart]

Heard some mention that their building codes are a bit more on the up and up than those in Haiti. Chile can afford the better construction, though. :-?

[TarJak]

Things are still looking pretty bad over there but Brag survived which is good news. And he's got the leccy on so he has cold Beer.

Over 700 confirmed dead and millions homeless. Not a great outcome.:nope:

[OneToughHerring]

A 'small' aftershock in Chile, a 6,5 I think. And another quake in Sumatra, 6,5 also.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jUPO_7GZCvhM4JZqCNz1wM00x70gD9E8KBU81