Posted on 03/11/2010 7:21:53 AM PST by An.American.Expatriate
SANTIAGO, Chile — A strong earthquake shook Chile Thursday, shortly before Sebastian Pinera was to be sworn in as president. The aftershock reached a 7.2-magnitude according to the United States Geological Survey.
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“We don’t get locusts out here... Unless you count the ones on welfare”
ZINGER!
Hang in there. Hopefully these quakes will be transferred to Hollywood where they belong.
I don’t appreciate thread hijackers of any stripe.
Total of three in succession
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.php
I realized this after my original response. Hence, my apology to Yossarian.
No problem, I’m not above criticism. And I need to get better about throwing out terms like “moron” around so freely.
>>>No, he’s the conservative.
Sometimes, tectonic plate movement is just tectonic plate movement.<<<
You are wrong! Every earthquake is meant to send a very specific message, and that message is obvious to all those who are paying attention. /sarc
Established their country on an unstable tectonic plate boundary, perhaps?
Libertador O’Higgins! What a wonderful juxtaposition of names!
WOW! I pray you are and will stay safe!
From the webicorder I am looking at, it appears that the plates are still moving. Long, slow wave forms.... The event is still going on!
Check this link....
http://www.quake.utah.edu/helicorder/imw_webi.htm
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/Onde_cisaillement_impulsion_1d_30_petit.gif
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/Ondes_cisaillement_2d_20_petit.gif
Yet. We stayed at one place in Northern CA when we were on our honeymoon trip with our camper in '04 that was absolutely overrun with rabbits. I've never seen so dang many rabbits. Drove my lab crazy.
However, it should be a nice fire season this year. We've had lots of rain and the pretty, green hills ought to go up like napalm once they've dried a bit.
And, if you cut any of that vegetation back the Governator will have your head on a platter. What a mess.....
Those are fantastic graphs. Perfect p-waves.
Actually those are suppose to represent the shear wave.
On the first link the right before the horizontal rolling I believe that is the P/wave.
The expression there are no stupid questions is just an expression...
They’ve just elected a Harvard Ph.D. as their President. Nuff said?
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INDEED.
More proof that we are in God’s hands.
I pray He will be merciful to the people of Chile.
The cross section of the second one is still a P-wave. Between the two, its a great representation. Whats interesting is that if you look at the webicorder in Utah, the event is still going on. those long slow waves represent a HUGE amount of energy, and its going somewhere! The plates are still moving. Its amazing to watch that.... They aren’t catching and stopping right now, which is why we still see that long series of waves. They are still moving, and in a real way thats a good thing, the energy is being released slowly instead of building up and releasing in a single shock.
I think this is why it will be considered an aftershock to the 8.0 last month, its all part of the same event, the plates are still moving.
Is he a commie, muslim liberal?
No, that’s the U.S. President.
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