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Silberio

February 28th, 2010 07:05 AM

Re: Earthquake in Chile.

That's right the point.
Haiti has been hit by poverty, makin' it harder to get anti-sismic buildings (If thats the word) which made a much greater damage.
In Chile, most of the buildings are eartquake "safe", the worst part happend down south; Most of the dead victims where over there.
I got whole my family in Santiago (Capital), and what they've told us (We've been able to communicate with them, thank god), the structural damage ain't such as big, except for old buildings like churches, bridges and things like that, but most of the people are OK there; the electricity was came back a few hours after the earthquake.
Allthough, those after-earthquake-Earthquakes (Dont know what you call them in englsih) keep coming which makes us all worry, but AFAIK, everything is "OK"...

Thanks for your worry guys, I really apriciate that.

Admiral Antilles

February 28th, 2010 09:29 AM

Re: Earthquake in Chile.

One thing that doesnt help Haiti, is that it is the poorest nation in the Northern Hemisphere.

Phoenix_22

February 28th, 2010 10:43 AM

Re: Earthquake in Chile.

Amazing what modern construction can do to reduce the impact of an earthquake. Most of the buildings after the 1960 earthquake were built to withstand strong earthquakes (probably not another 9.5 though) and the difference between this one and the one in Haiti.

Sad news for all of those in Chile who died or got injured, but it could have been much worse a few decades ago.

Nittany Tiger

February 28th, 2010 12:00 PM

Re: Earthquake in Chile.

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Originally Posted by Silberio (Post 5255130)

Allthough, those after-earthquake-Earthquakes (Dont know what you call them in englsih) keep coming which makes us all worry, but AFAIK, everything is "OK"...

They're called aftershocks.

Glad your family is ok. At last I saw, the death toll was over 400, and hopefully it won't get much higher.

Afterburner

February 28th, 2010 01:40 PM

Re: Earthquake in Chile.

Just saw another BBC article that put the death toll at 708 now. Good thing Chile was more prepared then Haiti was or it could have been higher.

Commissar MercZ

February 28th, 2010 03:31 PM

Re: There's going to be Earthquake in Hawaii very soon!

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Originally Posted by The Drunk Demoman (Post 5254525)

BEST LINK SO FAR: Hawaii Tsunami Warning Information | Honolulu, Hawaii http://www.facepunch.com/fp/emoot/siren.gif

Somehow, somewhere, there's gotta be one. We can find it.

Check everywhere, Google maps, etc etc etc.

edit: found one, but its not on the right side. Try to find on pointing toward Chile.

http://www.webcams.travel/webcam/124...E2%80%98awaloa

this one is much faster (updateing wise)

http://www.surfline.com/surf-report/...s-hawaii_4762/

edit: if you havn't heard about it, heres a good place to read http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/co...reported_near/

same place

Copy/pasta.

http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/i...ndcastles2.jpg

NiteStryker

February 28th, 2010 07:52 PM

Re: Earthquake in Chile.

I get the shakes when I'm chilie too.

Nittany Tiger

February 28th, 2010 09:09 PM

Re: There's going to be Earthquake in Hawaii very soon!

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Originally Posted by Commissar MercZ (Post 5255546)

http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/i...ndcastles2.jpg

I think that sandcastle washed up from Chile.

SeinfeldisKindaOk

February 28th, 2010 09:27 PM

Re: Earthquake in Chile.

Kyle what's the order of difference between points on the earthquake scale? There was a 9.0 in 1960 in Chile that caused a tsunami to hit Hawaii, yet an 8.8 didn't seem to do much.

NiteStryker

March 1st, 2010 07:21 AM

Re: Earthquake in Chile.

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Originally Posted by Professor Dr. Scientist (Post 5255769)

Kyle what's the order of difference between points on the earthquake scale? There was a 9.0 in 1960 in Chile that caused a tsunami to hit Hawaii, yet an 8.8 didn't seem to do much.

Its exponential. A 9.0 is like 10 8.0's.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wiki

The Richter magnitude scale, also known as the local magnitude (ML) scale, assigns a single number to quantify the amount of seismic energy released by an earthquake. It is a base-10 logarithmic scale obtained by calculating the logarithm of the combined horizontal amplitude of the largest displacement from zero on a Wood–Anderson torsion seismometer output. So, for example, an earthquake that measures 5.0 on the Richter scale has a shaking amplitude 10 times larger than one that measures 4.0.

Richter magnitude scale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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