#2
For those TCL'rs that live in Hilo Bay, Hawaii:I might suggest you leisurely walk away from the beach.
(1960 Tidal wave in Hilo came from earthquake just a few miles epicenter of today's quake in Chile.... and Hilo got ROCKED.)
Modified by randy at 9:46 AM 2-27-2010
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#3
They'll be fine. Less than 200 dead so far.Far cry from Haiti's complete lack of preparedness...
#4
Scary stuff, glad Ohio will never see a quake like that.
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#5
For those that don't know where Chile is...
And the epicenter.
Modified by BRealistic at 1:38 PM 2/27/2010
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#6
Im hearing rumors about a trsunami hitting the Bay of Bengal in a few months. Even though 200 is a far less cry from 100,000.... they are still humans and it is a big lost to each family of this misfortune. RIP.
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#7
At first I was like "Damage looks serious, but nothing we haven't seen before."Then I was like
"8.8 is nearly 9.0! That's ****ing massive!"
Hopefully the damage and death toll isn't anywhere near what we saw in Haiti.
Hawaiians should be on the lookout for tsunamis.
#8
Quote, originally posted by Skoll » They'll be fine. Less than 200 dead so far. Far cry from Haiti's complete lack of preparedness...
Looking at the pictures available now and listening to CNN- they are saying many structures "disappeared", and that the hardest hit areas are on the coast and cut off from communications and access roads are blocked by debris (we don't know how bad they are yet.. no pics or reports from those areas yet even), which suggest to me that the actual death toll will be in the thousands (unfortunately).
On the other hand- the coast near the epicenter is very sparsely populated.
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#9
Look at all the earthquakes today vs. the previous week: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/ear...g.php
#10
Population density is very low (less than 25 people per km) near the epicenter of this quake.
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Quote, originally posted by DSG-TDI » Look at all the earthquakes today vs. the previous week: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/ear...g.php The maps are great there. You will see small earthquakes happen everywhere.
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I can't wait for Pat Robertson to claim this happened because God was pissed at the Chileans.
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#13
Quote, originally posted by VarianceVQ » I can't wait for Pat Robertson to claim this happened because God was pissed at the Chileans. I don't know one person that takes his drivel seriously.. well, except for my 91 year old grandfather.
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Quote, originally posted by VarianceVQ » I can't wait for Pat Robertson to claim this happened because God was pissed at the Chileans. True story, true story.......
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Quote, originally posted by Entwerfer des Audis » At first I was like "Damage looks serious, but nothing we haven't seen before." Then I was like
Hopefully the damage and death toll isn't anywhere near what we saw in Haiti.
Hawaiians should be on the lookout for tsunamis.
It's been 12 hours since the earthquake hit off the coast of CHile. How long until any related tsunami hits Hawaii?
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#17
That's a spicy pepper!/bad joke
#18
Quote, originally posted by BRealistic » It's been 12 hours since the earthquake hit off the coast of CHili. How long until any related tsunami hits Hawaii?
I saw a thing on Yahoo that said by 11 am. Not sure if that means 11 their time
edit for link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/201...ami_8
Modified by Wilhelm R32 at 10:02 AM 2-27-2010
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#19
ugh that is a civil engineering nightmare.
#20
Hawaii has had evacuation orders since this morning at 6am.. they seem to be well prepared for worst case scenario.. so many crazy natural disasters lately..
#21
Quote, originally posted by Wilhelm R32 » I saw a thing on Yahoo that said by 11 am. Not sure if that means 11 their time
edit for link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/201...ami_8
4pm EST per the link.
And it's good to know the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center thing works.
Something good came from the Sri Lanka tsunami disaster.
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Quote, originally posted by rawk » Hawaii has had evacuation orders since this morning at 6am.. they seem to be well prepared for worst case scenario.. so many crazy natural disasters lately.. One of the dangers of the modern world is that there are people basically everywhere. So if anything happens, it will affect people.
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Quote, originally posted by B3passatBMX » Scary stuff, glad Ohio will never see a quake like that. perhaps not Ohio, but before everyone gets too comfortable, I present the New Madrdi Earthquake of 1811
It affected 20 states back in 1811 and was considered by some to be close to 9.0
look up New Madrid earthquake of 1811... rang church bells up in Boston.
there was a "minor shake" of this system in 1895..
Quote, originally posted by USGS » In the winter of 1811-12, the central Mississippi Valley was struck by three of the most powerful earthquakes in U.S. history. Even today, this region has more earthquakes than any other part of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains.
witnesses reported the ground rolling like waves on the ocean. with telegraph poles moving back and forth like ship masts on heavy seas.The Mississippi River ran backwards and uphill and formed a new channel many miles away from it's original bed. (the mississippi is over a quarter of a mile wide at the point of the earthquake)
Felt by over 2/3rd's of the US in 1811
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#24
Quote, originally posted by Skoll » They'll be fine. Less than 200 dead so far. Far cry from Haiti's complete lack of preparedness...
there's no need to be callous.
On that note though, this just displays the stark contrast between some kind of government combined with a certain level of building code vs a lack of government and construction code.
#25
8.8 is a massive earthquake. They are saying it released 500 times the energy the Haiti earthquake did. Fortunately Chile is a very sismic area and most building are buit to withstand such things.
#26
Quote, originally posted by BRealistic » It's been 12 hours since the earthquake hit off the coast of CHili. How long until any related tsunami hits Hawaii?
Seriously dude? The name is Chile not Chili.
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Quote, originally posted by Tomandante » Seriously dude? The name is Chile not Chili.
Sorry. Spell checker fail (with my terrible typing). It was not intentional.
will fix now .
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Quote, originally posted by koko12 » 8.8 is a massive earthquake. They are saying it released 500 times the energy the Haiti earthquake did. Fortunately Chile is a very sismic area and most building are buit to withstand such things. agreed
the ramp up from an 8.0 to a 9.0 is 10 times the energy released.
So each 0.1 is double the energy from the previous
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#30
Quote, originally posted by Skoll » They'll be fine. Less than 200 dead so far. Far cry from Haiti's complete lack of preparedness...
"so far"well, a number like 200 at this point is meaningless.
As with all things of this sort, the real numbers will be far greater.
Of course, one can always hope that this time it will be different
#32
Quote, originally posted by mavric_ac » the ****ing worlds coming to an end We got a couple years bro. Stock up on beer
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#33
In the last couple hours:# M 5.3, Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins, Chile "- 47 minutes ago"February 27, 2010 17:56:53 GMT
# M 5.5, offshore Bio-Bio, Chile "- 1 hour ago"February 27, 2010 17:43:37 GMT
# M 4.9, Maule, Chile "- 1 hour ago"February 27, 2010 17:33:50 GMT
# M 5.6, offshore Bio-Bio, Chile "- 1 hour ago"February 27, 2010 17:24:33 GMT
# M 5.0, offshore Bio-Bio, Chile "- 1 hour ago"February 27, 2010 17:22:26 GMT
# M 5.5, Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins, Chile "- 1 hour ago"February 27, 2010 17:11:49 GMT
# M 5.2, Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins, Chile "- 1 hour ago"February 27, 2010 16:50:20 GMT
# M 5.5, offshore Bio-Bio, Chile "- 2 hours ago"February 27, 2010 16:37:34 GMT
# M 5.2, offshore Maule, Chile "- 2 hours ago"February 27, 2010 16:32:21 GMT
# M 5.5, Bio-Bio, Chile "- 2 hours ago"
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#34
if memory serves correctly there was something called the "Great Chilean Earthquake" some fifty years ago
Quote, originally posted by wiki » The 1960 Valdivia earthquake or Great Chilean Earthquake (Spanish: Gran terremoto de Valdivia) of 22 May 1960 is to date the most powerful earthquake ever recorded, rating 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale
#35
Quote, originally posted by SoCal_SFVR6 » What does this have to do with cars? Did you see the fallen overpasses and crushed car pictures?
But yeah- it's a tenuous link.
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