Earthquake in Chile.

[Silberio]

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]

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

[Phoenix_22]

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]

Originally Posted by Silberio

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]

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]

Originally Posted by The Drunk Demoman

BEST LINK SO FAR: Hawaii Tsunami Warning Information | Honolulu, Hawaii


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.

[NiteStryker]

I get the shakes when I'm chilie too.

[Nittany Tiger]

Originally Posted by Commissar MercZ

I think that sandcastle washed up from Chile.

[SeinfeldisKindaOk]

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]

Originally Posted by Professor Dr. Scientist

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.

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