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Earthquake in Chile.

An 8.8 magnitude earthquake has struck Chile. At least 122 are dead and that toll is expected to rise.

UPDATE 11-Massive earthquake strikes Chile, 122 dead | Reuters

Along with that, it's generated a Pacific Tsunami. Hawaii and various Pacific US islands are under a Tsunami Warning at this time, as well as many other countries.

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The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued a Pacific-wide tsunami warning for countries in Latin America, and as far away as the U.S. state of Hawaii as well as Japan, Russia, Philippines, Indonesia and the South Pacific. French Polynesia was also put on alert.

EDIT: A Tsunami Advisory is also in effect for the entire US Pacific coast, British Columbia, and Alaska.

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Shiitt, I saw this on CNN, and was coming to post it.

I didnt know the BC Coast was on warning too.

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My condelences to the people of Chile and other victims.

Reports say a 6 foot tsunami in some places. No big one today...

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Its probably like how it was in Samoa a couple months ago, a hundred something dead, but other then that it shouldn't be that big of a deal (at least not on the scale of Haiti).

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Odds are they won't be as big as the ones in 2004 since this earthquake was less powerful and the center is further away from the coast than it was in 2004.

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The 2004 tsunami was a record-setting one for height at around 10ft. It's as big as an earthquake-triggered tsunami can get.

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The tsunami in Hawaii is the biggest fear IMO.

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That's set to strike around 4:00 PM EST. We'll know how bad it is for Hawaii at that time.

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* Quake kills at least 147 people in central Chile

* Buildings toppled, bridges and roads destroyed

* Operations halted at two major copper mines

* Tsunami kills 3 in Robinson Crusoe island (Updates death toll, adds Pinera quote, changes dateline)

By Jose Luis Saavedra

CONCEPCION, Chile Feb 27 (Reuters) - One of the most powerful earthquakes in decades battered Chile on Saturday, killing at least 147 people, knocking down buildings and triggering a tsunami that rolled menacingly across the Pacific.

Buildings caught fire, major highway bridges collapsed and debris lay in the streets across large swathes of central Chile.

A 15-storey building collapsed in Concepcion, the closest major city to the epicenter, and overturned cars lay scattered below a fallen overpass in the capital Santiago. Telephone and power lines went down, making it difficult to assess the full extent of the damage and loss of life.

Chilean President-elect Sebastian Pinera said at least 147 people had died in the 8.8-magnitude quake, which struck at 3:34 a.m. (0634 GMT), sending many people rushing from their beds and onto the streets in fear.

Tsunami warnings were posted around the Pacific, including the U.S. state of Hawaii, Japan and Russia.

One emergency official said Chile's death toll was unlikely to increase dramatically, but it was one of the 10 biggest quakes recorded since 1900 and dealt a blow to the economic infrastructure in the world's No. 1 copper producer and one of Latin America's most developed and stable countries.

"This will be a major blow to the country's infrastructure; there has been major damage to roads, airports, which are now suspended, ports and also in housing," Pinera told reporters.

The quake halted operations at two major mines and President Michelle Bachelet said a huge wave hit the Juan Fernandez islands, an archipelago where Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk was marooned in the 18th century, inspiring the novel Robinson Crusoe.

"There was a series of waves that got bigger and bigger, which gave people time to save themselves," pilot Fernando Avaria told TVN television by telephone from the main island. Three people were killed and four missing there, he said.

Bachelet said residents were evacuated from coastal areas of Chile's remote Easter Island, a popular tourist destination in the Pacific famous for its towering Moai stone statues.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the earthquake struck 70 miles (115 km) northeast of Concepcion at a depth of 22 miles (35 km).

The capital Santiago, about 200 miles (320 km) north of the epicenter, was also badly hit. The international airport was closed for at least 24 hours as the quake destroyed passenger walkways and shook glass out of doors and windows.

"I thought I'd blown a tire ... but then I saw the highway moving like it was a piece of paper and I realized it was something much worse," said one man who was forced to abandon his car on a wrecked highway overpass.

Chile's Codelco, the world's largest copper producer, suspended operations at its El Teniente and Andina mines, but reported no major damage and said it expected the mines to be up and running in the "coming hours."

Production was halted at the Los Bronces and El Soldado copper mines, owned by Anglo American Plc (AAL.L), but Chile's biggest copper mine, Escondida, was operating normally.

Chile produces about 34 percent of world supply of copper, which is used in electronics, cars and refrigerators.

TSUNAMI

Unusually big waves battered Ecuador's Galapagos Islands, where residents were moved to higher ground as a precaution.

"Chile probably got the brunt force of the tsunami already. So probably the worst has already happened in Chile," said Victor Sardina, geophysicist at the warning center.

"The tsunami was pretty big too. We reported some places around 8 feet. And it's quite possible it would be higher in other areas," he added.

An earthquake of magnitude 8 or over can cause "tremendous damage," the USGS says. The Jan. 12 quake that devastated Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince was measured as magnitude 7.0.

Local television showed a building in flames in Concepcion, one of Chile's largest cities with around 670,000 inhabitants. Some residents looted pharmacies and a collapsed grains silo, hauling off bags of wheat, television images showed.

Broken glass and chunks of concrete and brick were strewn across roads and several strong aftershocks rattled jittery residents in the hours after the initial quake.

In the moments after the quake, people streamed onto the streets of the Chilean capital hugging each other and crying.

"My house is completely destroyed, everything fell over ... it has been totally destroyed. Me and my wife huddled in a corner and after hours they rescued us," said one elderly man in central Santiago.

There were blackouts in parts of Santiago. Emergency officials said buildings in the historic quarters of two southern cities, mainly made of adobe, had been badly damaged and local radio said three hospitals had partially collapsed.

The magnitude 9.5 earthquake of 1960, the largest earthquake worldwide in the last 200 years, spawned a tsunami that engulfed the Pacific Ocean. About 1,600 lives were lost in Chile and the tsunami took another 200 lives in Japan, Hawaii andthe Philippines

In 1960, Chile was hit by a 9.5-magnitude earthquake, one of the biggest ever recorded. It devastated the city of Valdivia, killed 1,655 people, and sent a tsunami that battered Easter Island 2,300 miles (3,700 km) off Chile's Pacific coast and continued as far as Hawaii, Japan and the Philippines.

The waves that reached the Philippines took about 24 hours to get there.

Saturday's quake shook buildings as far away as Argentina's Andean provinces of Mendoza and San Juan. A series of strong aftershocks rocked Chile's coastal region from Valdivia in the south to Valparaiso, about 500 miles (800 km) to the north.

The United Nations and the White House said they were closely monitoring the situation in Chile and the potential threat of tsunamis in the Pacific.

President Barack Obama called Bachelet and said the United States stood ready to help Chile. He also urged Americans to heed warnings about a possible tsunami that could affect the U.S. West Coast and Hawaii.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was due to visit Chile on Tuesday on a Latin American tour. (Additional reporting by Helen Popper, Kevin Gray and Guido Nejamkis in Buenos Aires, editing by Anthony Boadle)

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This is crazy eh? I was up at like 2 watching lord of the rings (hahahahaha not funny) and I saw this on the news. This is crazy man. 1st Haiti and now Chile? Crazy stuff happening man.

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

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.

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10 minutes to go for ETA of Tsunami.

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There was also an earthquake in Japan, a 7.7.

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My condolences to Chile but these tsunami things are usually just overreaction, sensationalism and people trying to cover their ass after the southeast Asian tsunami. They put us under tsunami warnings here all the time (and I guess we are right now). I may be proven wrong, hope I'm not though.

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Originally Posted by Legolas* (Post 5254560)

There was also an earthquake in Japan, a 7.7.

No one cares about the industrialized nations. =p

UPDATE: I was right.

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TV | Aftonbladet

Its a Swedish link but provides a great live show over Hawaii.

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Originally Posted by Red Menace (Post 5254580)

Ventura County, CA saw a 3 ft water rise.

Also, there was a tsunami, but it wasn't a large as they thought it would be.

The warning was hyped because there was a deadly tsunami in Hawaii in 1960 that came from an earthquake in Chile, but there was a lot less warning for it. As a result, this one was warned to death.

They put the warning up based not solely on the fact that there was an earthquake, but what type and also from buoy observations, as well as observations from other islands closer to the earthquake epicenter (which did see a significant sea-level change).

You weren't under a warning, but you were under a tsunami advisory.

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Originally Posted by Legolas* (Post 5254560)

There was also an earthquake in Japan, a 7.7.

I saw a 7.0 near Japan while looking through recent earthquakes recorded by the USGS.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquak...us2010teb2.php

Looking from these maps, though, it seems that the impacts were too small to be of any interest except for local, and it probably was a slip event (earth moving sideways along a fault), which don't generate tsunamis.

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Lot of earthquakes lately, eh?

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Just because there was a 7.7 Earthquake in or near Japan, doesnt mean there will be a Tsunami. A Tsunami only forms after a certain type of earthquake, where Vertical Plate slip is involved.

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:agreed

Tsunamis occur when there is a sudden and large displacement of water. With earthquakes, it's with the sudden upward thrust of the seafloor, and chiefly in subduction zones like near Chile and Indonesia where the seafloor moves vertically (one plate slips under another). Slip faults like the San Andreas fault don't create tsunamis because the earth only moves horizontally along the fault.

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But is it true that the Earthquake from haiti did more damage than what happened to chile?

IMO Structures in haiti are weak.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Originally Posted by The Drunk Demoman (Post 5254525)

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

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I get the shakes when I'm chilie too.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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Its exponential. A 9.0 is like 2 8.0's.

A 9.0 earthquake has the same power as 10 8.0 earthquakes

lrn2expoential

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Originally Posted by Pethegreat (Post 5255961)

A 9.0 earthquake has the same power as 10 8.0 earthquakes

lrn2expoential

Fixt.

I hate numb3rs.

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Wow, just read that a man and his daughter fell 23 stories in their apartment bathroom and survived.

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eh you get the basic idea. Higher number = bigger earthquake.

At least scientists did not make an inverse equation for earthquake power where 10 would be a super-weak earthquake, and the one a Chile would be 2.

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Honestly, I am more concerned about the playstation network being offline than I am about the Chilie quake.

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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.

Nite wiki'd the answer. Each one full step up the scale is a ten-fold increase in intensity. In other words, intensity is proportional to 10^(Magnitude).

As for why there wasn't a 3'-6' sea-level rise in Hilo, Hawaii as expected, I don't even think the experts can tell you exactly why yet. Tsunamis are rare, so there hasn't been much field data about them. The math that describes tsunamis (and waves in general) are accurate for speed and somewhat accurate for amplitude and wave attenuation, but real life never follows the models. Thus, they got the arrival time right within a few minutes, but not the amplitude or sea-level rise.

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Doesn't the Tsunami thing have alot to do with the way the tectonical plates (Correct me please) move?

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Yes. It has to do with whether they move vertically or horizontally along a fault during an earthquake.

To visualize it, take a large bowl of water (plastic if possible) and first shake it (horizontal movement). Then, if you can, push the bottom up at a small point or drop something small but heavy (like a pebble) into it (vertical movement). The response of the water in the bowl simulates what the ocean does in response to an underwater earthquake.

You can make the experiment more accurate if you can put a sloped object at the edge of the bowl (that reaches to the bottom of the bowl).

If you do this correctly, the shaking should produce a sloshing effect while the pushing/dropping should produce a series of circular waves that radiate from the point of the disturbance. At your slope, these waves should decrease in speed and increase in amplitude.

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I just went for a run around my neighborhood (due to the PSN being offline), and the beach up here looks like it got hit with some higher than normal waves, but nothing catastrophic. The sand for 50 meters from the waterline is all leveled and smooth and wet.

But that all could be from the rainstorms we just had.

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It did run up the US west coast, and it did cause some damage in Ventura Co, CA.

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I also saw that on Yahoo! news. Quite interesting.

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The 2004 quake shortened the day as well....to shorten the day, you have to have the earth spin faster....so the quake just threw everything off?

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Nah. You can also make the Earth smaller or give it more angular momentum.

According to the article, the mass distribution of the planet was altered, which altered the axis of rotation. That redistribution probably took place in the mantle (or below). I can't say for sure, and this article isn't detailed enough for me to begin with. If it was, I could draw a better conclusion.

And apparently slip-strikes don't cause mass-distribution changes (Haiti was a slip-strike). Apparently, it takes vertical movements in the crust to alter the mass distribution of the planet. Knowing how thrust fault events happen, though, it would seem like the earth should actually slow down.

Again, not enough info.

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So it changed the weight distribution? How does the shifting of the crust of the Earth shift trillions and trillions of tons of magma and iron below enough to alter it?