BREAKING: Violent 8.8 quake hits Chile, sends tsunami towards Hawaii
This is horrible:
A devastating magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck Chile early Saturday, toppling homes, collapsing bridges and spawning a tsunami that threatened every nation around the Pacific Ocean — roughly a quarter of the globe.
Chileans near the epicenter were tossed about as if shaken by a giant. It was the strongest earthquake to hit the country in 50 years and one of the strongest ever measured anywhere. President-elect Sebastian Pinera said more than 120 people died and the toll could climb higher.
Local radio reported up to 150 could have been killed or hurt in a collapsed 14-story building in the hard-hit Concepcion, where firemen were working to put out fires throughout the city. One fire was in the science department in the local university.
Chile was the site of the strongest earthquake ever recorded -- a 9.5 shaker in 1960 -- and its infrastructure is reasonably well prepared for a quake. Hopefully, the death toll will not climb too much higher.
Meanwhile, they're watching carefully for a possible tsunami in Hawaii.
God punishes Chile for Pinochet coup!!
Or, does this interpretation of natural events only work if you're a crazy right-wing televangelist who hates dark-skinned people?
Are Chileans even dark skinned? I've known some but none of them were.
Robertson interpreted Haiti's earthquake as God's punishment for them making a pact with Satan...or some such BS
If Hurricane Katrina was God's punishment on New Orleans for the way some people behave during Mardi Gras...
If the Indonesian Tsunami was God's Punishment for the fact that many people there aren't Christian...
If the Haitian earthquake was God's punishment for the fact that the Haitian people supposedly practice voodoo (even though many are Christian)...
Then why do the right-wingers think God punished Chile? After all, most people who live in Chile are Christians...
No, wait! Don't tell me...I think I can guess. They're probably going to say it's because 1) Chile is headed by a socialist government or 2) because they elected a woman as President or 3) because Argentina (their next-door neighbor) now permits gay marriage and God wants to warn them not to do the same...which, of course, explains why Europe has seen so few natural disasters of this scope.
Never trust anyone who insists that patriotism requires you to blindfold yourself with the flag.
The irony being that "Satan" is a Christanic god and most of the Hiatians *are* Christians who believe in it.
"dark-skinned" = anyone who is NOT lily-white, straight, rich, RW, and Xtian.
Look out, Hawaii.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
What about the tan boner?
Don't count.
now. He's in Paia on the northeast side right now having coffee...Doh!
He says he's going to jump in the car and head to Makawao for a run. Doh! Doh!
I'm glad I didn't remind him that he has my video camera and that it happens to be waterproof so if he thought it would be cool he could drive down to the Hana side and film the tsunami....Doh! Doh! Doh!
It's due to hit Hawaii around 11:20 a.m. It's 8:20 a.m. there now.
I'll keep ya'll posted...
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
about the whole Pat Robertson thing...
However, I know this is serious.
I hope your son is unharmed. Do keep us posted.
per CNN, MSNBC.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Weather channel has good info on this. Humboldt Bay where I'm at, is due to be hit by a 1 foot tsunami at 1:30. we don't expect any coastal flooding, but a tsunami that big can do damage to our harbor. I think that is a few hours after a really high tide. Uh oh.
I was in the 1971 Santiago 7.5 earthquake, that was plenty strong.
8.8 is colossal. The epicenter is just northeast of Concepción the second largest city.
The 1960 9.5 Valdivia quake was the strongest ever recorded anywhere. Not far from today's temblor.
The Andes are new mountains that are still growing, earthquakes are one of the symptoms.
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This one was apparently about 55 km down.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
No, but I am looking.
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
I can do. Just thought you might know off the top of your head.
Thanks.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
temblors here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthqua...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
... the Richter scale is logarithmic, not geometric, so each point on the scale is 10x greater than the last.
Here's hoping all these warnings will prevent more tragedy.
I have never heard of so much extreme weather in my lifetime. The Asian tsunami, Haiti, Chilean earthquake, and so on. I am sure Faux News will downplay this latest extreme phenomenon and any relationship to global warming.
Earthquakes and tsunamis are not "weather" or weather related.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg2032727...
Down comes the smack! How's that coffee today?
would come on that remark...So I was ready.
Besides, I felt it should be researched...so I did a little, unlike some mangy trolls.
Thanks.
can appreciate a quick trigger finger...and U was nice and itchy, Hoss!
"five?'
Well, seeing how this is a .44 magnum mind--the most powerful reasoning tool in the world and will blow your willfully ignorant brain clean off--you've got to ask yourself a question: 'Do I feel stupid?'
Well do you punk?"
Thanks, I didn't realize that weather caused eathquakes. I stand corrected, but wait, http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/faq/?categor....
Heres a quote "However, there is no connection between weather and earthquakes. They are the result of geologic processes within the earth and can happen in any weather and at any time during the year. Earthquakes originate miles underground. Wind, precipitation, temperature, and barometric pressure changes affect only the surface and shallow subsurface of the Earth."
From the USGS.
No one said weather caused earthquakes, [Deleted-Sitemonitor]
ad hominem attack. Have a nice day.
I admire your lack of vindictiveness.
Study the symptoms not the virus...
way, when he's wrong.
...dig two graves."
--Confucius (551-479 B.C.)
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very condescending though.
I think you mistake passive-aggressive behaviour as 'lack of vindictiveness'
me-oww!
Before the mon deleted it. I do this to get rid of him and it works. This will disappear soon too probably.
Check his post history and you will see why this "person" gets up my nose.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX3UqY8KZpU
the the sun was in orbit of a flat earth, the earth was the center of the universe.
I don't think they can say absolutely weather is not at all causal in earthquakes. They can't prove that claim. They can say they absolutely have NO PROOF of weather or temp change causing tectonic upsets, but not "there is no connection between weather and earthquakes" with absolute certainty. Only they can't prove otherwise. The USGS is issued an unscientific statement there.
me-oww!
Although this is purely opinion. That if we're having a so called global warming period. Then that would mean expansion.. You know, that whole contraction and expansion thing. Hot/Cold. Ofcourse this is only a theory. Pure speculation on my part.
I wonder if anyone has done a study on temps when quakes have hit? Plus the whole barometric pressure thing as well. More pressure v low pressure.
One thing for certain, the planet has been shakin a whole lot lately.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
If the Earth's atmosphere simply flew out into space, the Earth wouldn't suddenly explode. Weather and climate do not affect the crust of the Earth.
which certainly involve science...I will not disagree with the earth suddenly exploding; but why would you bring THAT up? No one has made a claim of that. No one has claimed w/ certainty weather DOES cause or in some way effect earthquakes.
Your claim that weather and climate do not affect the earth's crust is wrong though. The Grand Canyon has been greatly affected by weather and climate. The crust is the outermost surface of the earth.
What IS being said is that you cannot PROVE weather and/or climate have no effect on the causes of earthquakes. It just is an unknown.
me-oww!
I get my tsunami warnings from the weather channel. Go figure.
Or did you just pluck that nugget out of your backside?
Temperature figures greatly in changes of all sorts. You may want to do some research into that before you make sweeping generalisations. That is, unless, you ARE a scientist, specialising in vulcanism, geology or some other earth science.
me-oww!
How about looking at the United States Geological Survey (USGS) site.
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and I guess you are not of a scientific mind, along with the writer of the USGS article you cite. How about looking at the reply i made above
me-oww!
Thanks, but I think I will tend to believe in what trained scientist have to say on the subject. Have a good one.
Gotta love how global warming deniers use science when it suits their purpose then ditch it for quasi-religious belief as soon as the science disagrees.
That being said, and despite the current source, the data on global warming causing earthquakes are pretty thin.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
how do you know who s/he is? The USGS didn't think enough of the info to credit an author. You make a leap of faith that a scientist wrote that. I could have written that (but wouldn't have), there is nothing beyond hs science in that article.
me-oww!
n/t
Its a general discussion point in the USGS FAQ web site, so I'm going to assume that anything written is fact checked by the USGS. The United State Geological Survey is Ieading autority in the science of the earth. If you want to dig into the science, I'm sure you can find links at their site.
know what happens when we assume, except it'll just be you.
... was exacerbated by deforestation and prior storms. The environment is not like central heating in your house; it is far more complex and intricate.
I'm sure this is just a false flag event by the administration to distract us while they cram the Obama care down our throats.
PS. For sale, aluminum foil head-wear ;)
Study the symptoms not the virus...
The coverage? Hey, why waste an opportunity?
Of course, they didn't need a distraction to pass The Patriot Act again. They just did it - and largely without any comment.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
here in L.A.
My son wants me to head up to the Palisades "safe area"...
Can't leave the cats and the bird!!
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
Your bird will be fine so long as its wings aren't clipped. just open the cage door.
He loves me too much.
;)
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
Hell, you might as well be in Nevada.;)
I didn't know Heather had a clip up at video cafe @ 8:30.
Anyway.
Quake info.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
should be OK, but today could be a beautiful day to visit, say Baldwin Hills...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5Snehl2bAk
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
just to avoid listening to music like that.
Ha!
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
Up the Irons!
Most commonly requested cover at the metal gigs I've played. Kinda like Freebird at a good ol' boys concert.
Is more my style...
Something nice and acoustical.
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
Yea but Jack Johnson doesn't put you in the evacuation mood. Could you imagine them playing Banana Pancakes instead of the air raid siren?
I just don't think its gonna work abby.
can't you see that its just raining.
Ain't no need to go outside.
Bad tsunami music.
to be confused...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Thanks to the link you've got me running out to the kitchen now to make some banana pancakes.
Thank God I have everything I need, including the maple syrup.
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
An unholy and unnatural union!
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
We had a nickname for those hills when I lived in LA, but I wont say it here.
They've got Rodeo, er, Road...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
TOMMOROW??? at 11:20 a.m.???
I thought it would be today....
Does anyone know what's up here?
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
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"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
It will hit approx 11:20 am local time in Hawaii.
Consider the source...CNN....faux lite.
http://www.salon.com/news/chile_earthquake/in...
Corruption favors the wealthy.
Yah, who are the ignorant, racist, hate filled Reslugs and their fake religious cult leaders blaming for this newest tragedy??? Can't wait to hear from these ignorant dickheads.
The twisted evangelical meme of idolatry still holds.
BTW, by replying I did not intend to volunteer for the position of "ignorant dickhead" :)
Corruption favors the wealthy.
"--I want Obama to fail."
"Why?" I inquired.
"So he doesn't bankrupt our country!"
"Hm," I replied. I had expected racism from him, but was unprepared for his response to later in our dialogue; there was a news photo from the summer I had clipped and saved of the president escorting the First Lady up the Air Force One staircase. Their destination was the Middle East during the Knisset, (the trip upon which G. W. Bush subsequently labeled the president an "appeaser" for talking to "our enemies." Oh, and a belated Thank You to Joe Biden for calling Bush's criticism 'Bullshit!')
The perspective of the photo was from a low angle. The president had his hand gently on the small of the back of the First Lady. She was slightly ahead of the president.
My comment to "Warren" (my brother-in-law) about this picture, and why it meant enough to me to save it, was: "He's showing her such respect." My view was he was modeling proper relationship behavior unconsciously (thus authentically).
Warren's response: "Michelle Obama is a waste of space."
There was a pause as I felt something in my core, a crawling, boiling warmth rising within me.
My sister sat silently but not submissively. Her previous husband "John" was a mortgage realtor who had called her a '****,' thus sparking an altercation of a physical nature between me and "John" which landed me in jail (hint: if you throw the first punch you go to jail, even when defending your sister's honor.)
I did not confront "Warren" any further, vocally nor physically. In fact, in the interest of anger management, I simply excused myself.
I haven't been back to their house sisce. I am concerned for my sister's well-being. Growing up with her (I am seven years younger) she taught me to respect women. But now she is 61 and wedded in all manner to "Warren."
I hope she'll be all right. (perhaps she'll do a google search and read this.)
Being that most of the damage to buildings are to old churchs. I guess GAWD wants the church to fail because they must have made a pact with the devil.
That God is punishing Chile for putting a RW billionaire criminal in power as their new Pres. But that's just as bad as what ilk like Pat say, so I won't.
Pinochet. Fujimoro. Bachelet When will those Chileans ever learn?
Bush. Obama. When will those Americans ever learn?
I'm referring to Piñera:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebasti%C3%A1n_P...
the NEW RW Pres.
I sit corrected.
Thanks.
The socialists are enormously popular, for good reason, Michelle Bachelet the outgoing president was at 81% favorable but because of terms limits could not run to succeed herself.
Eduardo Frei, a previous president ran a lousy campaign and the left was split in three parties.
Piñera says he will not undo the socialists work. Campaign pledges come and go but in Chile he might actually keep his word.
They are making progress one socialist president at a time.
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
I keep equivocating the US RW with other countries' RW and it's not always correct.
Fugimoro was Perú
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
Double corrected I sit.
have I gotten anything right this morning? Must be tsunami jitters.
Alberto Fujimori
me-oww!
Thank you!
We finally have it right.
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
Just how many well informed political commenters does it take to change a light bulb?
Corruption favors the wealthy.
Two.
One to change the light bulb. The other to believe in it.
I'm a geo. Not a good idea to connect GW to earthquakes. For now all known geological processes can explain these earthquakes. Not to say that there is not a possible connection such as rebound from continental de-glaciation or increased surface water flowing into large fault zones, but these would only occur in shorter term geological time periods - hundreds to thousands of years. Sometimes I find that when people throw GW in with earthquakes it gives a lot of unneeded fuel to the GW denier idiots.
As a geo I can't stress enough how important teaching geology to public is. People who understand geological timescales and process are better equipped to make the world a better place. I'm glad people here are on the ball with science.
ps. thanks to the internet and a good infrastructure in Chile I knew within a few hours that friends of mine down there were safe.
C'mon, let's blame bush, just for the Hell of it.
You know he'd ignore it just like Katrina.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
since early this AM:
http://www.bom.gov.au/tsunami/
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Man I've watched video on several networks now. It looks like very few buildings escapes damage. So many are collapsed, it looks as bad as Haiti.
single or double column construction, typical of much of the US outside of CA. Maybe reinforced, I don't know, but seemed pretty wimpy by CA standards.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Someone ask Pat Robertson why the Chileans are being punished
. . . the language of Jesus.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
vacationing near the epicenter...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
http://www.weather.com/weather/alerts/localal...
According to the weather channel, we just got our tsunami in Humboldt. It was 1.3 feet.
They've got to be worried right now.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
Scroll down on that link. I think theirs was 2 feet.
I might be mistaken but I thought they had one that was 6" a couple years ago and that one did over 1 million in damage to the harbor. Two feet could be pretty serious, and our tide was at it's peak here, and it hit much earlier than first forecast.
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"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Wow. You mean the waves continue for more than two hours? I thought the Asian tsunami was over pretty quick.
WAVE HEIGHTS ARE EXPECTED TO PEAK APPROXIMATELY TWO HOURS AFTER INITIAL ARRIVAL.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Thanks PYTHONCHARLIE!
; )
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"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Dude. Thanks for the laugh. That was fucking hilarious.
Edit: The paragraph read like a telegram. these are the forecast for tsunami waves near my region, the have not hit yet.
TSUNAMI FORECASTS AT SELECTED POINTS - MORE ON WEB SITE LA JOLLA CA 0.8M/2.6 FT LOS ANGELES CA 0.8M/2.6 FT MALIBU CA 1.0M/3.3 FT PISMO BEACH CA 1.4M/4.6 FT HALF MOON BAY CA 1.0M/3.3 FT SAN DIEGO CA 0.4M/1.3 FT HUMBOLDT BAY CA 0.4M/1.3FT CRESCENT CITY CA 0.6M/2.0 FT PORT ORFORD OR 0.3M/1.0 FT MOCLIPS WA 0.4M/1.3 FT TOFINO BC 0.5M/1.7 FT SITKA AK 0.4M/1.3 FT SEWARD AK 0.4M/1.3 FT KODIAK AK 0.7M/2.3 FT WAVE HEIGHTS ARE EXPECTED TO PEAK APPROXIMATELY TWO HOURS AFTER INITIAL ARRIVAL.
I would think that Santa Cruz would be vulnerable? Facing south and all.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
"...the most powerful reasoning organ in the world and will blow your brain--clean off, so you got to ask your self a question: "Do I feel stupid?' Well do ya punk?
Spot on!
In case anyone was tempted,
A TSUNAMI IS A SERIES OF LONG OCEAN WAVES... AND ARE NOT SURFABLE WAVES.
From the weather channel in Hawaii.
Don't tell the Foxtards! We need to cull a few from the herd.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Now watch as the Republinazi theofascist Christians check in to spew their insane hate, attributing this latest quake to their Christanic gods.
per CNN.
http://www.journal-post.com/2010/02/27/3916/r...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
CNN: "Maybe he doesn't have a radio, or satellite, or common sense."
LOL!
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/mess...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
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