Juan Fernández Islands = pop of around 600 (not including tourists)
CNN weather guy just got handed a report of a tsunami at 40 meters. “I’ll believe that when I see it,” he said.
40 meteres?!?!? Nah, can’t be. That’s over 120 feet!
update on larger aftershocks... (first 8.8 quake hit at 3:34am Chile time = 1:34am eastern time)
MAP 5.6 2010/02/27 09:00:17 -33.425 -71.625 35.0 VALPARAISO, CHILE
MAP 5.3 2010/02/27 08:53:56 -34.447 -73.397 35.0 OFF COAST OF LIBERTADOR O’HIGGINS, CHILE
MAP 5.6 2010/02/27 08:48:05 -38.584 -75.257 35.0 OFF THE COAST OF ARAUCANIA, CHILE
MAP 6.1 2010/02/27 08:25:29 -34.750 -72.394 35.0 OFFSHORE MAULE, CHILE
MAP 5.5 2010/02/27 08:19:23 -33.479 -71.574 35.0 VALPARAISO, CHILE
MAP 6.9 2010/02/27 08:01:24 -37.654 -75.199 39.0 OFF THE COAST OF BIO-BIO, CHILE
MAP 5.2 2010/02/27 07:56:37 -36.933 -73.240 35.0 OFFSHORE BIO-BIO, CHILE
MAP 5.4 2010/02/27 07:51:05 -36.399 -72.498 35.0 BIO-BIO, CHILE
MAP 6.0 2010/02/27 07:37:18 -36.837 -72.541 35.0 BIO-BIO, CHILE
MAP 5.6 2010/02/27 07:33:31 -38.007 -73.484 35.7 OFFSHORE BIO-BIO, CHILE
MAP 5.4 2010/02/27 07:19:48 -35.811 -72.945 35.0 OFFSHORE MAULE, CHILE
MAP 6.0 2010/02/27 07:12:28 -33.807 -71.913 35.0 OFFSHORE VALPARAISO, CHILE
MAP 6.2 2010/02/27 06:52:35 -34.735 -72.638 35.0 OFFSHORE MAULE, CHILE
MAP 8.8 2010/02/27 06:34:14 -35.846 -72.719 35.0 OFFSHORE MAULE, CHILE
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Maps/region/S_America_eqs.php