[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

I heard a small island off the coast of Chili for hit with a 130 foot wave...is that confirmed?

[Eye of Unk]

Hard to say, now I am thinking it was a metric screwup, might have been something like a 7-16FOOT wave, but if it actually was that big....its gone, only a satellite image will tell us anything.

[hennie pennie]

In the main thread — “8.8 Earthquake in Chili” — it was stated that THAT report about the 140 foot wave came from Twitter, and that it was an utterly unreliable source, and that furthermore, someone probably took a 40-foot wave and thought that it was a 40-meter wave, so quickly multiplied it by 3 to come up with 140-feet -— it’s a total inaccuracy; elsewise that news would be EVERYWHERE — I mean, when have we ever heard of a 140 foot ocean wave????

[rwfromkansas]

I can say without virtual certainty....that would basically be frankly IMPOSSIBLE.