Posted on 03/03/2010 3:28:31 PM PST by La Enchiladita
Three big, successive aftershocks shook Chile's south-central regions Wednesday, further rattling a nation already on edge after the massive 8.8 magnitude quake that struck it early Saturday.
Wednesday's temblors triggered local tsunami alerts along the coasts of the Bio Bio and Maule regions, the two hardest hit by Saturday's quake and an ensuing tsunami.
Blaring sirens sent already nervous residents scurrying for higher ground in the seaport of Talcahuano, reported Dow Jones Newswires journalists at the scene.
Tsunami alerts were also heard in the coastal towns of Concepcion and Constitucion, according to local radio broadcasts. All three towns were ravaged by Saturday's quake, the worst to hit Chile in half a century, and tsunami.
But no tsunami followed Wednesday's aftershocks, the magnitudes of which ran from 5.9 to 6.3 in preliminary readings by the U.S. Geological Survey.
Chile's National Emergency Office, known as Onemi, issued a statement minutes after Wednesday's temblor saying no tsunami alert was being issued.
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>>Nearly 800 confirmed dead.<<
Given the size of that earthquake, that is miraculous.
It is sad, but I have to assume Chile has some pretty tough building laws. The buildings clearly lost foundations and the like, but somehow the people inside survived for the most part.
Wow. Wonder if people moved back inside buildings thinking it was over with...and then BAM! Hit again and the buildings finally went down.
Prayers Up.
Remarkable force, Diana.
Shep on FOX just got word a 6 point something earthquake in Taiwan.
Yikes! At the rate she’s shakin’, rattlin’ and rollin’, Mother Earth may not make it to the ‘predicted’ end in 2012! ;)
The one that has me worried is that caldera at Yellowstone.
Yeah...it’s been suspiciously quiet in California...
That is going to be ugly if the predictions on that one come true. *SHIVER*
http://www.earthmountainview.com/yellowstone/yellowstone.htm
It is a spooky one and if it blows people better have supplies to last a long time, cause it will be a whole new ballgame.
It will be. We’ll have like half a country left! Unfortunately, most that will remain will be helpless dopes in Blue States (like mine), so you’re right...planning is the key. ;)
I lived in CA when Mt. Saint Helen’s blew and worked for a ceramics company. My Boss drove north to collect ash for a new ceramic glaze he wanted to make to mark the event. (The guy was always thinking!) It was the prettiest glaze EVER. But, it came at quite a cost.
A friend at the time sent me pictures from her home in Idaho. It looked like a blizzard of ash, all the way over there! They literally had to shovel ash off of everything...and forget about getting anything mechanical to even MOVE under all of that.
I’ll take my chances up here in Blizzard and Tornado Land, when it comes down to it. But what choice do I have when Mother Earth decides to shrug her shoulders? ;)
Oh yeah especially when it begins to rain with sulfuric acid mixed in with it.
I got pinged to the news 4 minutes after you posted.
Jerry Lee Lewis wrote a song about times like this... oh yeah.
Well, this causes me to reminisce about our Northridge quake in January 1994. We had strong aftershocks up to several weeks after the “main event.” You are basically in a state of PTSD for a few months. Just when you start relaxing and forgetting, here comes another one.
You bet we are on alert here in CA now.
http://ferfal.blogspot.com/2010/03/i-had-to-shoot-people-do-you-understand.html
As bad as the earthquake was it’s obvious that worse things can happen.
“I had to shoot people! Do you understand what that means?”
Those were the first words said by Jorge Mendoza, manager of an important company in Concepción, when he was finally able to call Buenos Aires.
“I had to shoot people, I had to shoot people” he repeated in a lethargy state.
“Its hordes killing and robbing, they don’t leave anything standing. And here I am with my wife and two kids, they are terrified. This is worse than the earthquake, we can’t stand it no more, we have no power, no water, no gas, no oil, nothing. We organized with four other neighbors to defend ourselves, no one protects us and we haven’t slept in 3 days, God, someone please do something”, he said. “They are robbing people that travel alone we cant move, we’re damned to hell and no one does anything to help us”.
Felipe Sandoval, journalist, lives his own tragedy. “Mi house is still standing and my family is ok, but the situation is anarchic. I had to send my wife and 3 daughters to a friends house in a gated community to protect them, and with another 7 neighbors we are protecting what little we have left. There’s no gasoline, we move around on bikes and through populated areas alone, because if not they rob you even that”.
He goes on “I live in a humble, working class neighborhood, hard working people, and I’m living through things I never thought I would. We are our own hell”.
He continues saying “First they looted food stores, then supermarkets looking for anything, and now they started with the houses. Today, life isn’t worth anything here. What the earthquake hasn’t destroyed, this has”.
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