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Magnitude 83 Quake Chile | ||||
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The quake just hit off the coast of Chile. Somewhere between magnitude 8.3 and 8.5. | ||||
...apparently you can't put periods in titles... Not a magnitude 83 quake, it's supposed to be 8.3. | ||||
A magnitude 83? | ||||
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/ | ||||
Damn...8.3? That isn't good...first Haiti, then this... :( | ||||
Magnitude 3.6 - in Alaska also | ||||
They are calling it an 8.8 now. And a 6.2 and a 5.4 to follow up... | ||||
yep im watching the news, in some places says 8.8 and others 8.3. Im some cities of my country the feeled the quake too, we are very close to chile. Luckyly where i live the only danger is the sea or the rains. | ||||
Yeah, I'm hoping that a Tsunami doesn't come out of it. I'm assuming that since it has not happened already that it probably won't, but I don't know how long it takes for it to travel. | ||||
Just because it was an 8.8 magnitude doesnt mean it dislodged a large enough chunk of ocean sea crust to cause a Tsunami. | ||||
True, but it's always safer to assume that there is one and prepare for it than to assume it doesn't exist and get swept out to sea because of it, in my mind anyways. That and the reports said a Tsunami watch was in effect for certain areas. | ||||
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Tsunami will hit Hawaii in exactly 35 minutes from this post. I don't know about any other islands, I expect the Galapogos islands to be pretty devestated. There are Tsunami warnings all across the pacific rim, but I doubt there will be a big wave for Western U.S. and Canada, doubt anything for the rest of the rim. Idk about Australia though, probably a big one. I think Hawaii will be hit hard though. | ||||
Just a comparison for you guys, magnitude is figured in antilogarithms, so a 7.0 in Haiti is about 100million if you figured it. While the 8.8 in Chili is about 631million if you figured it, so the 8.8 is over 6 time STRONGER then the one in Haiti | ||||
I know that its stronger I just cant do the math part to tell how much stronger :P | ||||
American Samoa and Samoa are looking at trouble too now from Tsunami | ||||
fuck it's going to hit here in a hour | ||||
the tsunami alert level extends all the way here to Seattle (ETA 1641 PST FEB 27 0041 UTC FEB 28) as well but they're saying low alert | ||||
Yes, all of 34 inches or so. | ||||
we get more rain then that in a day :p guess we'll find out how much very soon | ||||
I didn't surf this morning because I thought there was going to be a tsunami :( | ||||
This is proof that earth hates us. :D | ||||
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