Posted on 08/23/2014 4:06:59 PM PDT by WellyP
Magnitude Mw 6.6 Region VALPARAISO, CHILE Date time 2014-08-23 22:32:24.0 UTC Location 32.72 S ; 71.41 W Depth 40 km Distances 108 km NW of Santiago, Chile / pop: 4,837,295 / local time: 18:32:24.0 2014-08-23 41 km NE of Valparaíso, Chile / pop: 282,448 / local time: 18:32:24.0 2014-08-23 19 km W of Hacienda La Calera, Chile / pop: 49,106 / local time: 18:32:24.0 2014-08-23
best one I´ve felt in 2 years here. Ñuñoa, Santiago.
I was standing up, it felt like trying to ride the subway without holding on to the handles. Door banging on the door frame. Lights still on, all is well...
Keep us updated. Luck to all in the area.
Hopefully, there aren’t a lot of people injured, but just wait and see, as the Greens try to link this quake to any Fracking that has taken place in the region.
Wow,I been on the subway.Sounds like a shaker-stay safe ((((Hugs))))
Best wishes to all in Santiago de Chile!
Chile is on my list of possible Latin American refuges ... but earthquake ...
Not a problem and the skiing is usually very good. Snowing hard right now above 2000 meters outside of Santiago.
We’re not skiers. My brother is, but he doesn’t speak Spanish, only some scarmabled German and Italian from his years in the Air Force in Europe.
We’ve seen a lot about Chile that’s positive on the tv travel programs. Probably safer than Colombia, except for the earthquake thing, but we know Colombians.
Who am I trying to fool? Whatever happens to us, it will happen in North Carolina. Not that there’s anything wrong with being in another country, but our kids have friends here, and so do I.
Anyhow, I wish you all the best. The seafood looks gorgeous in the tourism shows. Is it that good in real life?
Ditto.
I’ve seen documentaries that say that of all the truly dangerous earthquake areas of the world the Pacific coast of Chile is just about the worst.IIRC they said that eventually a collapse of a huge section of the coastline will occur sending a tsunami of Biblical proportions across the Pacific.
But roll the dice. Does it happen in your lifetime? You can only know by waiting out your lifetime and seeing what happens.
From a strictly scientific point of view, Chile is much more seismically active than the average place you met settle, like North Carolina, but the geological time scale isn’t tomorrow ... until it is.
New Moon in two days.
I sure hope this one isn’t followed by a tsunami like the last one.
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