Chile Hit by 8.3 magnitude quake

[WhiteVitz]

SANTIAGO, Chile - A massive magnitude-8.3 earthquake struck near Concepcion, Chile, early on Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported, shaking buildings and causing blackouts in parts of the capital of Santiago.

A tsunami warning was issued for Chile and Peru by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, and a tsunami watch was issued for Ecuador.

The earthquake struck 90 kilometres northeast of Concepcion at a depth of 55 kilometres at 3:34 a.m. Its magnitude was reported at 8.3 and 8.5, then fixed by the USGS at 8.3.

http://www.vancouversun.com/Chile+ma...544/story.html

[johny]

japan got one this morning


maybe vancouver will be tomorrow!

[hchang]

When the earthquake hits Richmond, it'll probably be a lot safer staying at home than trying to drive over the bridge with all these c-lai drivers panicking.

[1309#21]

http://www.livinginperu.com/news/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Chile_earthquake


casualties weren't as high compared to Haiti, but damn....

[Wykydtron]

It's still early, we'll just have to wait and see what arises. Hopefully the worst is over.

Japan also was hit with a 6.something quake :S

[fliptuner]

We should feel the effects of that quake in the coming days. IIRC there's already a tide warning.

[wouwou]

Originally Posted by hchang

When the earthquake hits Richmond, it'll probably be a lot safer staying at home than trying to drive over the bridge with all these c-lai drivers panicking.

so you own a boat huh?

[?NR]

duplicate threads merged.

[MoBettah]

The girl is in Hawaii, told me everyone was making for the mountains as precaution. I'm sure some of the locals are out on the water to catch some big ones though.
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[murd0c]

its on CNN live right now. pretty interesting.

[penner2k]

My landlords are from Peru... My brother in law is from Chile... Hopefully everything is fine with their families..

[Meowjin]

Originally Posted by SMDBICH

YOU NIGGER DONT SAY THAT, I DONT WANNA DIE!!

I wish i could fail you
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[Manic!]

Originally Posted by MajinHurricane

I wish i could fail you
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Did it for you.

[danned]

poor people in chile

[hchang]

Originally Posted by wouwou

so you own a boat huh?

No but my chances of survival are a lot higher swimming to somewhere with land than driving in Richmond with C lai drivers trying to cross the bridge.

[shenmecar]

Originally Posted by hchang

No but my chances of survival are a lot higher swimming to somewhere with land than driving in Richmond with C lai drivers trying to cross the bridge.

QFT

I saw a C-Lai in a S550 turning onto Knight St bridge going in the opposite direction.

[1exotic]

Originally Posted by shenmecar

QFT

I saw a C-Lai in a S550 turning onto Knight St bridge going in the opposite direction.

that's pathetic... not suprised also.

In New West few days ago some asian lady stopped in the middle of the road and put her left-turn signal on... she wanted to make a U-turn in the middle of the road.... I raged so hit nos and burned out past here, hope that scared her.

[keitaro]

NASA scientist found that the 8.8 Chilean quake shook the whole earth and shifted earth's axis, thus shortening the day.

March 1 (Bloomberg) -- The earthquake that killed more than 700 people in Chile on Feb. 27 probably shifted the Earth’s axis and shortened the day, a National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientist said.
Earthquakes can involve shifting hundreds of kilometers of rock by several meters, changing the distribution of mass on the planet. This affects the Earth’s rotation, said Richard Gross, a geophysicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, who uses a computer model to calculate the effects.
“The length of the day should have gotten shorter by 1.26 microseconds (millionths of a second),” Gross, said today in an e-mailed reply to questions. “The axis about which the Earth’s mass is balanced should have moved by 2.7 milliarcseconds (about 8 centimeters or 3 inches).”
The changes can be modeled, though they’re difficult to physically detect given their small size, Gross said. Some changes may be more obvious, and islands may have shifted, according to Andreas Rietbrock, a professor of Earth Sciences at the U.K.’s Liverpool University who has studied the area impacted, though not since the latest temblor.
Santa Maria Island off the coast near Concepcion, Chile’s second-largest city, may have been raised 2 meters (6 feet) as a result of the latest quake, Rietbrock said today in a telephone interview. He said the rocks there show evidence pointing to past earthquakes shifting the island upward in the past.
‘Ice-Skater Effect’
“It’s what we call the ice-skater effect,” David Kerridge, head of Earth hazards and systems at the British Geological Survey in Edinburgh, said today in a telephone interview. “As the ice skater puts when she’s going around in a circle, and she pulls her arms in, she gets faster and faster. It’s the same idea with the Earth going around if you change the distribution of mass, the rotation rate changes.”
Rietbrock said he hasn’t been able to get in touch with seismologists in Concepcion to discuss the quake, which registered 8.8 on the Richter scale.
“What definitely the earthquake has done is made the Earth ring like a bell,” Rietbrock said.
The magnitude 9.1 Sumatran in 2004 that generated an Indian Ocean tsunami shortened the day by 6.8 microseconds and shifted the axis by about 2.3 milliarcseconds, Gross said.
The changes happen on the day and then carry on “forever,” Benjamin Fong Chao, dean of Earth Sciences of the National Central University in Taiwan, said in an e-mail.
“This small contribution is buried in larger changes due to other causes, such as atmospheric mass moving around on Earth,” Chao said.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/201...tist-says.html

[twitchyzero]

i'm no physicist but
our day was shortened by 1.26microseconds? Is that supposed to be significant?

anyways, luckily the epicenter was so far in the seabed...if it happened on land the effects would be much, much worse.

[q0192837465]

^it won't matter in the foreseeable future. But when we talk about planets & stuff like that, we talk in millions of years. In that case, it DOES matter. Anything small accumulated over millions of years will be significant.

Anyways, I wonder if our bridges are strong enuff to take such an earthquake. I dun think tsunami will be a problem here cuz Van Island will take most of the hit. Anything past that will be small and non-threatening.

[ziggyx]

This is what Chile looks like 3 days after.







Here's the link for more:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/201...ays_later.html

[illicitstylz]

another " Gem " from 4chan...

[orange7]

fuk..

now we all gotta donate $$..

I don't mind donating some spare dollars once in a while, but to do this like every month is just ....

[Gh0stRider]

VALPARAISO, Chile - A 7.2-magnitude aftershock and four other tremors rocked disaster-hit Chile Thursday, triggering a tsunami alert just minutes before billionaire Sebastian Pinera was sworn in as the new president.

The quake was the strongest aftershock of more than 200 which have shaken the South American nation since the massive 8.8-quake of February 27 which sparked a killer tsunami and left almost 500 confirmed dead.

The latest aftershock was centered 114 kilometers (71 miles) south of Valparaiso, where it caused some to flee in panic from the Chilean parliament as right-wing tycoon Pinera prepared to take over power.

Pinera said a series of aftershocks on Thursday caused "significant damage" in Rancagua, a city almost 100 km south of the capital.

There were no initial reports of fatalities.

thats a huge aftershock.

[orange7]

we need a before and after picture.

There wouldn't be much of a difference.