Posted on 02/26/2010 11:01:09 PM PST by dragnet2
On the radio KFI LA..
THANKS
This quake is close enough to the Chile event to very possibly be related/triggered by it.
The rupture zone for the Chile event has spread a considerable distance along the subduction zone. this will keep seismologists and tectonists at it for a long time.
What's you professional opinion about this?
Thanks.
Ring of Fire....The Pacific Basin erupts...there was a Sci-Fi movie a long time ago with that theme..showed the earth with TWO moons at the end..
“Yeah I am going to have to call BS on the 130’ wave. Not that they aren’t possible, in fact they are very possible, however if there was a 130’ wave it would essentially wipe out the entire Juan Fernandez population and Chile would not know about it for days. The 2004 earthquake/tsunami which had a greater magnitude than this one caused at it’s highest peak 100’ waves.”
I’ve read the whole thread so far.
That report came in via Twitter, which said “40 meter wave” in an island off Chile. I suspected a unit problem—40 foot wave seemed more likely. Then there can a report from another island nearby of a 36 foot wave.
I think the case is closed.
Apparently earthquakes in that region of Argentina aren’t unknown. My guess is the damage in that area will be fairly minimal.
That's waaaaaay too catastrophic an image for my poor little mind to deal with.
Could an 8.8, followed by massive aftershocks really rip a country to shreds, or might that "falling apart" been a really serious mistranslation?
Could get a bigger one within 48 hours. Hopefully not, but as I said in my post before ... high tides can trigger EQ’s.
I know that there are actual limits for the wind speeds in hurricanes and tornados...du to the laws of physics..but is there a atheoretical, or actual limit to the maximum strength of on earthquake..?IOW, is an 11.0, or a 14.0, a possible event?
I read in the Spanish-language press that the wave flooded parts of Juan Fernandez and that so far three people are missing, but it didn’t sound as if it took out the entire island.
I’m only a professional naval analyst, I’m not a geologist or sesimologist, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn last night.
The Argentina quake is well outside the rupture zone of the Chile quake, and on a completely different fault. It’s clearly not an aftershock. So, either:
1) It just happened on its own (the area is fairly quake-prone itself.
2) It well may have been remotely triggered by the Chile quake.
I’d caution people against trying to associate every quake in the world for the next month with the Chile quake; there’s plenty of sesimic activity that routinely occurs on its own.
Thanks, that was my impression; also I recall that a few years ago there seemed to be constant jolts at around that same magnitude that were occurring in UTAH, for months & months, and noone was worried.
It’s a really good questions. I haven’t a clue although it’s pretty far inland and north of the cluster.
“I’d caution people against trying to associate every quake in the world for the next month with the Chile quake; there’s plenty of sesimic activity that routinely occurs on its own.”
Where’s the fun in that?
The Kuhio Beach cam is down.
I hope it’s just high web traffic and not DOWN down.
http://www.honolulu.gov/multimed/wme.asp
Scary. I think I’ll pass on that one. :)
Thanks for sharing, I learned alot on the messagethreads about YELLOWSTONE supervolcano, but I’ve never read anything about earthquakes or volcanoes, nor taken any geological classes.
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