8.8 Earthquake in Chile [Update at #277]

KFI LA http://www.kfiam640.com/pages/jk2010.html ^

[dragnet2]

On the radio KFI LA..

[tcrlaf]

FROM TWITTER:

tv tickers here in maui says tsunami warning for hawaii (big maybe) at 11:19 am tomorrow

[Steve Van Doorn]

"On my USGS Live Bookmark feed, there were two earthquakes listed as in Central CA at 4.1 and 3.3 shortly after the big one in Chile."

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Long Valley started a new swarm a few hours before the Chili EQ.
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/waveforms/helimammoth/MSL_EHZ_NC_--_00_20100226.html

[Halgr]

I’m thinking things are not well in Concepcion, Chile.

Hopefully since its 75 miles from the epicenter.....there will be some moderation.

[JustPiper]

http://interactive.foxnews.com/livestream/live.html?chanId=5

[John W]

Is that what it means? Its 9:43 pm Friday there now.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

well they are catholics in chile.

[Ramius]

This is going to mess stuff up some.

[JustPiper]

Don’t know Myr, hope they have live news at 2am CST

[Bokababe]

Chile has had some of the worst quakes and devastation ever known.

In May 1960, they had a 9.5 quake -- the largest ever recorded. Then they had a tusnami, then they flooded ,then they had mudslides and finally they had a volcanic eruption. The whole thing was known as the Valdivia event.

And in spite of all of that, they only lost about 6,000 people in Chile in 1960.

Global seismic release from 1906 to 2005, the graph shows that almost 25% of the energy was concentrated in the Great Chilean Earthquake (1960) alone.

[JustPiper]

But FNC running rerun of GB show today also what hap to LIVE news?

[CaribouCrossing]

That’s one monster of a quake! Was half asleep when son called to tell me. Gonna do some checkin’ on those tsunami warnings.

[dragnet2]

Can you imagine if this was a foreshock for a really big one?

[Washechu]

[21twelve]

55 km down is hopefully deep enough to also moderate the effects at the surface some. The Haiti quake was much shallower IIRC.

[Yaelle]

Dumb question — which shore of Maui is at risk?

[unkus]

Can you imagine if this was a foreshock for a really big one?

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It is a foreshock to a really big one. It’s just a matter of when.

[DB]

Google Earth shows small towns within about 2 miles of the epicenter. Large cities are within about 20 miles.

This is going to be bad.

How awful.

[eyedigress]

Don’t we have some Freeper Friends in Samoa as well? Maybe a ping or two couldn’t hurt. I don’t recall their screennames right away.

[JustPiper]

Chile in 2005
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8208422

[John W]

Hawaii under tsunami advisory after massive quake strikes off Chile

http://www.starbulletin.com/news/bulletin/85636222.html