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8.8 Earthquake in Chile [Update at #277]
KFI LA http://www.kfiam640.com/pages/jk2010.html ^

Posted on 02/26/2010 11:01:09 PM PST by dragnet2

On the radio KFI LA..


TOPICS: Breaking News; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chile; chileearthquake; earthquake; eq; hawaii; ringoffire; tsunami; usgs
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To: ican'tbelieveit

People who are uncomfortable with public speaking tend to use the lectern as a shield. I gave classes sometimes in the service; in NCO school we were advised to come out from behind it- don’t use it as a crutch.
When I was an IT manager in professional life, I took over from another guy who used to put his desk between him and anyone in his guest chair. I turned the desk sideways so that nothing was between me and anyone who was visiting my office. I got a surprising number of positive comments about it.

I don’t know, maybe when you’re the President and you are making a public statement it is somehow different.< shrug>


1,901 posted on 02/27/2010 5:33:42 PM PST by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: Pylon
The thing about a majority of the quakes we have had in San Diego, by the time you realize what it is, it is over.

40 year resident of the SFBA here. In an apartment complex, there's an earthquake. The building creaks and groans like it is going to fold up like a folding wine rack. Everyone in each unit opens their door and looks out at everyone else. If there's a pool in the middle of the complex, they watch the water slopping back and forth for a moment. Then the doors all close and everybody goes back to whatever they were doing before.

To us, it's something mildly interesting. 'Hey, did you feel the earthquake yesterday' watercooler fodder. Unless it's big enough to have a name. That's different.

1,902 posted on 02/27/2010 5:41:15 PM PST by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: stormer

I have no numbers yet I don’t doubt that earthquakes have killed more than tornadoes worldwide due to lax building codes in certain parts of the world and the few tornadoes that occur outside the central and eastern U.S.

In America, though, I think tornadoes are the deadlier force. Tornadoes rarely kill hundreds but they kill small pockets in a cluster of storms year after year on a rather steady basis. While man has built structures that limit earthquake damage, nobody has yet designed a building to limit tornado damage.


1,903 posted on 02/27/2010 5:48:20 PM PST by OrangeHoof ("Barack Obama" is Swahili for "Bend over suckahs".)
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To: Riley

I felt the Northridge quake pretty good down here. 80’s and early 90’s there were quite a few out by El Centro and the Salton Sea that were pretty big and we rolled pretty good down here but other then that I can’t remember really having a big shaker down here. I guess San Diego has been pretty lucky, we don’t really have any major faults in the city/county except for maybe the Rose Canyon fault. Our luck will run out someday though.


1,904 posted on 02/27/2010 5:50:59 PM PST by Pylon (Tagline: (optional, printed after your name on post):)
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To: Pylon

I was in the SFBA for Loma Prieta. I was on bedrock, passing over Kirker Pass between Concord and Pittsburg when it hit. I didn’t feel it. My Dad lived in Cow Hollow in the City though. I took the next day off to go look for him. That turned into a real adventure.

I’d just driven a truck over the Cypress Structure (that pancaked) earlier that same day.


1,905 posted on 02/27/2010 5:58:47 PM PST by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: Riley
I had been waiting for 3 weeks for my "test window" on the IBM mainframe. It was scheduled for 5 PM. The mainframe was in San Francisco. I was in San Diego. When the clock reached 5:08, the testers ducked under the desks and started yelling about an earthquake. It was the Loma Prieta quake. Next test window...in 3 weeks.
1,906 posted on 02/27/2010 6:28:27 PM PST by Myrddin
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To: John W

85 quakes...man that is a lot of shaking....


1,907 posted on 02/27/2010 6:46:20 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: OrangeHoof
I have no numbers yet I don’t doubt that earthquakes have killed more than tornadoes worldwide due to lax building codes in certain parts of the world and the few tornadoes that occur outside the central and eastern U.S.

The rather absurd myth that earthquakes only kill people in Third World hellholes without building codes seems to have gotten stronger after the Haiti quake. Entirely wishful thinking.

People seem to forget the 1995 Kobe earthquake in Japan killed over 5,000 people.

In America, though, I think tornadoes are the deadlier force. Tornadoes rarely kill hundreds but they kill small pockets in a cluster of storms year after year on a rather steady basis. While man has built structures that limit earthquake damage, nobody has yet designed a building to limit tornado damage.

The U.S. will have an earthquake that kills several thousand people, probably within the next 2-3 decades. It's just a matter of time. When that happens quakes will easily pull ahead of tornadoes as a cause of death in the U.S.

And even now earthquakes are a far greater cause of dollar damage in the U.S. averaged out over time; the Oklahoma City tornado did about $1 billion dollars of damage; the Northridge earthquake did about $20 billion dollars of damage.

Even California has tens of thouands of older structures that are not remotely capable of surviving a large earthquake; when you start talking about places like the Pacific Northwest, Utah, and even the East Coast (where a M 7 quake has hit Charleston SC and large quakes have struck near Boston centuries ago) it's much worse; there's even a not-inconsiderable threat to New York City.

Is a quake ever going to kill 100,000 people in the US? No. But we don't have any sort of magical technological immunity against mass deaths in earthquakes.

1,908 posted on 02/27/2010 6:46:25 PM PST by Strategerist
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To: Brad's Gramma
I turned my TV off cause they kept beeping a Tsunami Alert...

And apparently they saw the water go in and out with the Tsunami down at Dana Point...according to the KFI radio report,,,,decided to close the restaurant there...

1,909 posted on 02/27/2010 6:49:29 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Red Boots

Thought you might like to know that my daughter did hear from her friend this evening. They are 20 mi or so inland from Concepcion, and their house survived, though everything inside is smashed. They have no electrcity, or running water, but are all ok.


1,910 posted on 02/27/2010 7:05:49 PM PST by Red Boots
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

No. Dana Point???? Wow....


1,911 posted on 02/27/2010 7:09:50 PM PST by Brad’s Gramma (Here's a thought!! Donate to the website you are on RIGHT NOW!!)
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To: OrangeHoof
While man has built structures that limit earthquake damage, nobody has yet designed a building to limit tornado damage.

It's called a cellar.

Seriously, few structures can survive a direct hit from an F5 or F6 twister at full strength, just like no building can survive an earthquake if the ground under it suddenly isn't there any more. But we have a lot of years' experience at building structures to resist high winds. Hurricane construction would leave a lot more structures standing in the Midwest during tornado season -- but it's not cost-effective.

If you want building codes that will stop people from dying, forget tornadoes. Swimming pools kill more people every year.

1,912 posted on 02/27/2010 7:14:07 PM PST by ReignOfError
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To: JustPiper

Persistent reports are that years ago they revised it down to

200,000,000

to get there by force.


1,913 posted on 02/27/2010 7:20:44 PM PST by Quix ( POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 TRAITORS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Strategerist

I believe you will be alive when 10’s of millions are killed by quakes in the USA within a relatively short period of time.

We shall see.

I have no doubt where you’ll file this . . . yet you will remember it at the time.


1,914 posted on 02/27/2010 7:29:40 PM PST by Quix ( POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 TRAITORS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Strategerist

An series of seismic events could easily kill or cause the deaths of millions in the US. They could easily cause volcanic activity, tsunamis, disruption of logistical lines of communication, and destruction of water resources for population centers.

We only survive and prosper by the grace of God.


1,915 posted on 02/27/2010 7:37:37 PM PST by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: Brad's Gramma; NormsRevenge
From OC Register:

Tsunami produced 3′ waves in O.C.

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February 27th, 2010, 12:58 am · 103 Comments · posted by Gary Robbins, science writer-editor

Geophysicist Mark Legg of Huntington Beach took this image of small tsunami waves rolling ashore at the mouth of the Santa Ana River. The largest of the waves reached 3 feet in height. There are markings on the photo because it was taken while rain was falling.

Reporting by Gary Robbins, Peter Schelden, Ron Campbell, Cindy Carcamo, Ken Steinhardt, Fred Swegles and Elysse James.

Updated 6:47 p.m.

A magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Chile that literally made the planet vibrate generated a tsunami that produced 3 foot high waves in Orange County 13 hours later, including breakers that hit storm runoff in the Santa Ana River, briefly producing small, frothy rapids.

It was the largest tsunami to hit Orange County since the Great Alaskan Earthquake of 1964, a 9.2 temblor that produce waves in the 2 foot to 3 foot range.

The tsunami, which traveled about 6,000 miles to get here, led officials to close virtually every beach in Orange County as well as most piers. Newport Beach sent automated phone calls to residents warning them to stay away from the ocean.  Parts of Dana Point Harbor were closed. The bait barge in Dana Point Harbor was broken roughly in half. The new $1 billion destroyer USS Dewey was sent out to sea from the Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station to avoid being damaged.

And in perhaps the ultimate Orange County moment, some top surfers received citations because they refused to come out of the ocean during the period that the tsunami was adding to wave heights.

1,916 posted on 02/27/2010 8:20:49 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Pylon
Here's to hoping it's not earthquake weather for you...

I'm sick of the snow here - have had way to much of it this year. I'm not a fan of tornados but know how to deal with it. For me - having the ground shake even a little would ruin my week...

Take care - and by the way - have taken the kids to San Diego and it is beatiful. Kids couldn't get enough of the ocean and running around on the beaches.

All the best to you and yours.

1,917 posted on 02/27/2010 8:32:22 PM PST by !1776!
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To: OrangeHoof
In America, though, I think tornadoes are the deadlier force.

So far - I agree, though flooding is much more dangerous.

Tornadoes rarely kill hundreds but they kill small pockets in a cluster of storms year after year on a rather steady basis.

Agreed.

While man has built structures that limit earthquake damage, nobody has yet designed a building to limit tornado damage.

For most tornados simply taking shelter in an interior room is sufficient. For slightly larger ones being in a basement under something sturdy is usually enough. For the monsters, yeah - tough to design for though possible - think safe room on steroids. Question as always - do the probabilities make doing so a responsible decision...

1,918 posted on 02/27/2010 8:47:47 PM PST by !1776!
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To: greeneyes

It also altered the course of the Mississippi River - and didn’t it run backwards too?

There are those that say the Mississippi River ran backwards. The more reasonable explanation is that it ran sideways for awhile. Reelfoot Lake in northwest Tennessee was formed from this. If the river had actually run backwards Reelfoot Lake would probably stretch to the Cumberland Plateau


1,919 posted on 02/27/2010 8:49:29 PM PST by Figment ("A communist is someone who reads Marx.An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx" R Reagan)
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To: Godzilla
Thank you Godzilla for looking at it.

Chili has had a 9.0 and a 9.5 so I assume this is a natural occurrence.

1,920 posted on 02/27/2010 8:59:28 PM PST by Cindy
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