8.3-magnitude earthquake hits Chile, tsunami to hit Hawaii

[BigMass]

SANTIAGO, Chile – A massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake, capable of tremendous damage, struck southern Chile early Saturday, shaking buildings in the capital, where some buildings collapsed. A tsunami warning was issued.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/lt_chile_earthquake

[BigMass]

Haiti ---> Japan ---> Chile

lots of earthquakes lately

[brownchild]

Things are getting messed up. Hopefully not as much devestation as Haiti. I wonder when a major one will finally strike somewhere in Canada(western or eastern coast).

[Canucks3322]

^ Vancouver ......I still remember elementary school there in the 90's...earthquake drills, the Vancouver one will be BIG and it's been building up pressure for decades now.

[msommers]

8.8 is fucking enormous. Eeessh

Originally posted by brownchild
Things are getting messed up. Hopefully not as much devestation as Haiti. I wonder when a major one will finally strike somewhere in Canada(western or eastern coast).

Western >>>>>> Eastern

Originally posted by Canucks3322
^ Vancouver ......I still remember elementary school there in the 90's...earthquake drills, the Vancouver one will be BIG and it's been building up pressure for decades now.

Decades? Uhh...

[Kardon]

2012 yo

[DayGlow]

Just wait, when we win gold beating the USA in hockey they will
leave the city quickly....

[gretz]

Originally posted by Kardon
2012 yo

lol - according to the prediction there will be a "Tyrant" that causes more natural disasters...

[ZenOps]

Holy crap 8.8? That is near earth shattering.

You do not want to be living anywhere near a fault line this year...

2012, that was an awesome movie *spoiler alert*. They actually explained the most common geological theory for the extinction of the dinosaurs - magnetic pole reversal (although without the earthquakes and gigantic Tsunami) and massive cosmic radiation bombardment.

Yes, it would be a very prudent idea to step up the earthquake drills in the Vancouver area after the Olympics.

Side note: I've got my third monitor on California Quake duty...

http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/

But even so - they only report up to 7.0... Anything below 4 is just regular movement.

[danno]

my mom just got to hawaii and there is a tsunami heading there, she doesn't take these things very well either. hope for the best. it is supposed to hit hawaii at 11:19am hawaii time.

[Oz-]

I was born in Chile, but came to Canada when I was very young. Over 90% of my family remains there and for obvious reasons I was unable to get a hold of them through the telephone. Posted something on facebook as a shot in the dark and within 30 minutes everyone has reported back fine. This thing is huge, last time I was there on the 19th floor of the Hyatt, we were hit with a 5.8. It was plenty big back then, so I could only imagine what a 8.8 feels like.

[Speed_69]

Originally posted by Kardon
2012 yo

Exactly what I've been thinking after I heard the about the one in Japan yesterday afternoon. It's coming haha

There's actually been 4 earthquakes lately, not 3.

Haiti -> China/Russia Border -> Japan -> Chile

[HiTempguy1]

Originally posted by Oz-
I was born in Chile, but came to Canada when I was very young. Over 90% of my family remains there and for obvious reasons I was unable to get a hold of them through the telephone. Posted something on facebook as a shot in the dark and within 30 minutes everyone has reported back fine. This thing is huge, last time I was there on the 19th floor of the Hyatt, we were hit with a 5.8. It was plenty big back then, so I could only imagine what a 8.8 feels like.

The richter scale is logarithmic, so it was one thousand times more powerful than the one you felt

[Vagabond142]

8.8 is fucking HUGE. Btw.... this is what the south US felt from that shake, vertical divison plot:



That is in south New Mexico o_O Nice surface wave, meaning what shakes you, as well as a small aftershock a few minutes after the big rumble.

^^^^^^^^^ How to read that: the vertical numbers down the left side are the actual time at the station (New Mexico), in 15 minute deviations, the right side is ZULU (UTC) time. Along the bottom are 15 minute marks to fill in those deviations. So, reading that, the earthquake lasted, realistically, 8 minutes, although most of the violent stuff happened in the first 2-3 minutes

[Vagabond142]

http://aslwww.cr.usgs.gov/Seismic_Da.../LVC_24hr.html

This is the seismograph plot from Limon Verde, Chile... it's off the fucking scale o_O

[el_fefes]

Thankfully Chile has better infrastructure than Haiti so this won't be as tragic.

Oz- I'm happy your family is ok. I've hear ppl still can't get through the phone lines.

[shakalaka]

Wow this is scary...all this makes me feel like it's adding up to 2012 when a big world wide one is gonna come.

[Canmorite]

They just showed live footage from a helicopter of a city on the coast, nothing was damaged and there were cars driving on the road along the beach

[97'Scort]

The people staying at my parent's house in Hawaii are under evacuation notice (they're up the mountain a ways too, I don't think they'll actually be evacuated) but my diving buddies had to move their boats offshore and load up everything from their harbour store.

Technically we're under a tsunami warning here in Victoria as well, for the immediate coastal area.

[sputnik]

Originally posted by Canmorite
They just showed live footage from a helicopter of a city on the coast, nothing was damaged and there were cars driving on the road along the beach

That's because the epicenter of the quake happened miles offshore in the ocean and not around any major cities.