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Tsunami strikes Chile: Live updates after massive 8.3 magnitude earthquake causes giant wave
Mirror UK ^ | 4-2-14

Posted on 04/01/2014 7:14:09 PM PDT by kingattax

A wave of more than six feet in height has hit the port of Iquique in Chile.

It is a key copper exporting port, close to the country's main copper mines.

Mining companies Codelco and BHP Billiton said that had not yet received reports of damage to mines.

(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; chile; earthquake; earthquakes; quake; tsunami
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

There have been landslides covering the roads.


41 posted on 04/01/2014 8:10:34 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: gigster

Besides what the other commenters are telling you, an ordinary wave doesn’t move water forward with the wave (until it breaks in the very last stage, lasting seconds). The tsunami obeys the same rule, but it is ‘breaking’ the whole time it is approaching land — moving untold billions of cubic meters of water up and onto the land for minutes, at least.


42 posted on 04/01/2014 8:12:23 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature not nurture)
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To: Fledermaus

Probably won’t happen though,...not to mention the swarms of human flesh eating Humboldt Squid which swarm up to the surface from unknown depths in the Northern Sea of Cortez whenever they detect human swimmers in the gulf for about 20 minutes, then disappear again without a trace. Nobody seems to ever hear again from people who go on vacation swimming down there.....If the tsunami is powerful enough to link into the Salton Sea towards Indio, even if one were lucky enough to make it through the flood,....would they evade the swarms of flesh eating squid?????....then the Africanized bee swarms come to mind......<8^0


43 posted on 04/01/2014 8:12:59 PM PDT by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: Axenolith
It’s south of the equator, dark is opposite there...

LOL :-)

I'm sorry, I know this is a tragic situation, but I CAN'T help it! Does that mean that if Obama was there he would be a White man? er, well White any way.

44 posted on 04/01/2014 8:14:08 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Cvengr

“Nobody seems to ever hear again from people who go on vacation swimming down there”

There has to be a “Breaking News” story about this somewhere.


45 posted on 04/01/2014 8:15:15 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER
We get that on a regular basis. It’s called high tide.

So do we. And if you built your house between low and high tide and the water rose meters per second (like in the historic Hilo tsunami), you'd have a problem.

46 posted on 04/01/2014 8:16:10 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature not nurture)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER
Storm tide. Throws rocks on the roads, washes them out. Maybe takes out some expensive houses built on the beach and washes away all their sand.

Okay I don't know anything about the subject, I live in Kansas. My thoughts on high tide have something to do with snorting laundry detergent.

47 posted on 04/01/2014 8:16:31 PM PDT by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
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To: stars & stripes forever

They say the flesh eaters don’t let them live long enough to break the news! ;^(


48 posted on 04/01/2014 8:18:56 PM PDT by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: steve86

There’s a reason they don’t build houses in certain areas. For those who do, they have an apt description:

More money than brains.


49 posted on 04/01/2014 8:21:10 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
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To: Cvengr

“They say the flesh eaters don’t let them live long enough to break the news! ;^(”

If that’s the case, the best advise to give to swimmers would be a fifteen minute limit in the water.


50 posted on 04/01/2014 8:21:16 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.)
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To: stars & stripes forever

Yeah, but something gets the lifeguards who are posted more than 40 minutes, so there’s nobody to tell’em.


51 posted on 04/01/2014 8:24:06 PM PDT by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: steve86
billions of cubic meters of water

We don't have those here in the US....We have billions of gallons.

52 posted on 04/01/2014 8:24:46 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
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To: Cvengr

“but something gets the lifeguards who are posted more than 40 minutes”

It must be those ‘killer bees.’


53 posted on 04/01/2014 8:25:57 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

Having worked in the sciences including at a U.S. National Laboratory, I virtually always use metric except when buying milk or gasoline. However, the Corps of Engineers often does quote water volume in terms of cubic feet, but not gallons.


54 posted on 04/01/2014 8:28:50 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature not nurture)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

What, you live on the Bay of Fundy or something, lol?


55 posted on 04/01/2014 8:30:50 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: blueplum
so a 6 ft tsunami could be, on shore, 12-18 ft?

Yes, or far higher, or lower. It depends entirely on the shape and topology go the shoreline where the wave comes ashore. Even a two foot wave at sea can be terribly destructive when it hits the shore. A wave that's six feet high but five miles long... That is five miles of wave continuously coming ashore... That's a whole lot of water.

56 posted on 04/01/2014 8:35:30 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

High tide takes 6 hours to peak. This will peak in minutes. And, as noted, if it’s on top of high tide, that’s well above what the shore-dwellers are prepared for.

The Indonesian “Christmas Tsunami” was about 35 feet and killed a quarter-million people. The Japanese tsunami causing the Fukushima nuclear meltdown was 10-30 ft and killed some 18,000 with vast property damage.

Your tidal change would do a lot of damage if it were all at once.


57 posted on 04/01/2014 8:35:44 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (Making good people helpless doesn't make bad people harmless.)
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To: kingattax
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58 posted on 04/01/2014 8:42:02 PM PDT by baddog 219
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To: Axenolith
It’s south of the equator, dark is opposite there...

It doesn't work that way.

Rather, clocks run counterclockwise south of the equator.

:-)

59 posted on 04/01/2014 8:46:47 PM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: Zeppo

“About 300 inmates escaped from a women’s prison in the city of Iquique, and officials said Chile’s military was sending a planeload of special forces to guard against looting.”


60 posted on 04/01/2014 8:47:25 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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