Which to believe?
A 3-meter tsunami wave hit on Saturday the Robinson Crusoe island, the largest in the Chilean Juan Fernandez archipelago, following a powerful earthquake which struck Chile earlier in the day, the country’s president, Michelle Bachelet, said.
“A village on the island is half-flooded, people have been evacuated to higher elevations,” the president said, adding there had been extreme damage from the tsunami.
The 8.8-magnitude earthquake hit the Latin American country in the early hours of Saturday. The tremor occurred some 89 kilometers (55.3 miles) to the north of Chile’s second largest city Concepcion, some 341 kilometers (212 miles) from the capital of Santiago.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center put out a warning along the coastlines of Chile and Peru, and issued a tsunami watch for Colombia, Ecuador, Antarctica, Panama and Costa Rica.
Some 50 nations have been placed under a tsunami advisory. Areas of concern are the Hawaiian Islands, French Polynesia, Australia, and Japan. Russia’s Far Eastern region was also advised, but local emergency authorities have stated that the region is in no danger.
BUENOS AIRES, February 27 (RIA Novosti)
3 meters would be wonderful.
Hard to know.
Guage Location Lat. Lon. Time Period Amplitude
IQUIQUE, Chile
20.2S
70.1W
0906Z
72min 0.27M / 0.9FT
CALDERA, Chile
27.1S
70.8W
0843Z
20min 0.45M / 1.5FT
ANTOFAGASTA, Chile
23.2S
70.4W
0832Z
58min 0.40M / 1.3FT
TALCAHUANO, Chile
36.7S
73.4W
0652Z
88min 2.34M / 7.7FT
COQUIMBO, Chile
30.0S
71.3W
0852Z
30min 1.32M / 4.3FT
CORRAL, Chile
39.9S
73.4W
0739Z
16min 0.90M / 2.9FT
SAN FELIX, Chile
26.3S
80.1W
0815Z
08min 0.53M / 1.7FT
VALPARAISO, Chile
33.0S
71.6W
0708Z
20min 1.29M / 4.2FT
This earthquake occurred at the boundary between the Nazca and South American tectonic plates. The two plates are converging at a rate of 80 mm per year. The earthquake occurred as thrust-faulting on the interface between the two plates, with the Nazca plate moving down and landward below the South American plate.