Posted on 02/26/2010 11:01:09 PM PST by dragnet2
On the radio KFI LA..
# 27th aftershock, magnitude 5.0, off shore of #Chile - U.S. Geological Survey 10 minutes ago via BreakingNews Headquarters
Not good.... thanks again.
I saw that chart myself, and immediately thought it was wrong. They said the St. Helens eruption released more energy, which also is nonsensical.
American Samoa Lt. Gov. Aitofele Sunia has called on all residents on shorelines villages to move to higher grounds, while police in Samoa have issued a nationwide alert to begin coastal evacuations.
The tsunami is expected to reach the islands Saturday morning.
The American Samoa government has activated emergency services with off duty police officers and other first responders to report to their offices as soon as possible.
Meanwhile, disaster management officials in Fiji say they had been warned to expect waves of between as high as 7.5feet (2.3 meters) to hit the northern and eastern islands of the archipelago and the nearby Tonga islands.
On Sept. 29, a tsunami spawned by a magnitude-8.3 earthquake killed 34 people in American Samoa, 183 in Samoa and nine in Tonga. Scientists later said that wave was 46 feet (14 meters) high.
Huge earthquake strikes Chile, 85 dead
....FLAMES, LOOTING Local television showed a building in flames in Concepcion, one of Chile's largest cities with around 670,000 inhabitants. Some residents looted pharmacies and a collapsed grains silo, hauling off bags of wheat, television images showed. Broken glass and chunks of concrete and brick were strewn across roads and several strong aftershocks rattled jittery residents in the hours after the initial quake....
Do you see that white building? That’s one story.
Reports are the waves reached 13 stories.
That’s higher than the ridge in that photo.
Check out the Univ of Utah seismographs for Yellowstone. The recorders went nuts just before MN local time and for quite a while afterwards. Impressive for an event that far away!
The language conference was actually an important one, scheduled for sometime in the next few days, and would have brought a lot of visitors to Chile. It’s an international conference held in a different Spanish-speaking country every (two?) years.
I was going to attend this year, but at the last moment, family events prevented me from making the arrangements. Just as well, I guess.
CNN video stream LIVE
Click on Live on CNN.com: Powerful earthquake hits Chile
Confirmed.
Hilo International Airport announced that it will be closing at 6 a.m. HST Saturday because of the tsunami warning.
All other state airports will remain open at this time and flight operations have not been affected.
Forecast Tsunami amplitudes for California Issued:
THE TSUNAMI ADVISORY FOR THE U.S. WEST COAST, BRITISH COLUMBIA, AND ALASKA INDICATES THAT STRONG CURRENTS ARE EXPECTED AT THE SHORELINE WITH POTENTIALLY SOME MINOR INUNDATION. PRELIMINARY TSUNAMI AMPLITUDE FORECASTS AT SELECT POINTS ARE:
LA JOLLA, CA 0.7M/2.3 FT
LOS ANGELES, CA 0.6M/2.0 FT
MAILBU, CA 0.8M/2.6 FT
PT. SAN LUIS, CA 0.7M/2.3 FT
HALF MOON BAY, CA 0.8M/2.6 FT
CRESCENT CITY, CA 0.5M/1.7 FT
PORT ORFORD, OR 0.2M/0.7 FT
MORRO BAY, CA 0.7M/2.2 FT
SANTA MONICA, CA 1.0M/3.3 FT
O>O
DUDE! FORGET THE COUCH! GET OUT!
(shaking head....)
OMG. 8.8. That’s beyond comprehension.
It is not going to be pretty..
Looks more like 4 to 8 foot waves. Small really, but you can’t take a Tsunami too seriously. The first time you do can be the one that sweeps you off your feet and out to sea.
Residents urged to seek safety before Honolulu County, Hawaii, closes all roads in #tsunami zones at 10 a.m. local time - KHNL-TV
You’re right in terms of how high it might have gone. The reports are all over the place right now- one has a 130 ft high wave and then on down to 2-3 ft. As always- never trust first reports.
Oh I fully agree, never take it lightly. I just doubted that reported number.
Due to the harder, colder, drier and less fractured nature of the rocks in the earth’s crust in the central United States, earthquakes in this region shake and damage an area approximately 20 times larger than earthquakes in California and most other active seismic areas. Even though large earthquakes occur much less frequently in the NMSZ than in California, the long term average quake threat, in terms of square miles affected per century, is about the same because of the approximately 20 times larger area affected in the central United StatesMost recent studies seem to indicate the NMSZ may be dying out, though have not gotten much media attention.
The NMSZ appears to be about 30 years overdue for a magnitude 6.3 quake because the last quake of this size occurred 100 hundred years ago at Charleston, Missouri, on Oct. 31, 1895 (it was a magnitude 6.7). A magnitude 6.3 quake near Lepanto, Arkansas, on Jan. 5, 1843, was the next prior earthquake of this magnitude. About 75 percent of the estimated recurrence time for a magnitude 7.6 earthquake has elapsed since the last quake of this size occurred in 1812.
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