Massive earthquake hits Chile

drew64 · 27 Feb 2010 at 22:42

watching the hawaii news site's one.

the asian weather man is awesome, he's so excited.

Berserker · 27 Feb 2010 at 22:42

Nico_Joey said:
They have some massive highways for such a small island

edit: isnt Lost filmed around Hawaii?

Test Drive Unlimited (Xbox360) was done there too IIRC.

Glad it seems to have been a damp squib for Hawaii. Media frenzy or not, rather that than the other option.

Freefaller · 27 Feb 2010 at 22:42

Glad to hear you'll be ok Garp. It's amazing when nature strikes, just how helpless we are.

Garp · 27 Feb 2010 at 23:04

Freefaller said:
Glad to hear you'll be ok Garp. It's amazing when nature strikes, just how helpless we are.

Glad it's all okay.

Back to Chile news, 8.8 is in the top 5 largest earthquakes since 1900, and so far only a few hundred people have been reported dead. That is absolutely stunning and seriously contrasts with Haiti, showing the big difference between a country where buildings are designed with earthquakes in mind and those where they aren't.

As regards to the poster earlier talking about people not choosing to live in areas where earthquakes and tsunami's can strike. Where do you particularly want to move 1/4th of the worlds population+ ? Squeeze it all into England? What about all the produce of those countries, where do you want to make up the shortfall in agriculture?

Berserker · 27 Feb 2010 at 23:14

Garp said:
As regards to the poster earlier talking about people not choosing to live in areas where earthquakes and tsunami's can strike. Where do you particularly want to move 1/4th of the worlds population+ ? Squeeze it all into England? What about all the produce of those countries, where do you want to make up the shortfall in agriculture?

Well England's out anyway. They'd all get flooded. Mother nature is capable of springing surprises anywhere - just look what happened recently to Madeira. It's amazing just how much housing is perched on hillsides there (and they were building more while I was out there a few years ago). Guess what was first to go when the torrent of rainwater hit.

thedoc46 · 27 Feb 2010 at 23:57

Garp said:
Glad it's all okay.

Back to Chile news, 8.8 is in the top 5 largest earthquakes since 1900, and so far only a few hundred people have been reported dead. That is absolutely stunning and seriously contrasts with Haiti, showing the big difference between a country where buildings are designed with earthquakes in mind and those where they aren't.

As regards to the poster earlier talking about people not choosing to live in areas where earthquakes and tsunami's can strike. Where do you particularly want to move 1/4th of the worlds population+ ? Squeeze it all into England? What about all the produce of those countries, where do you want to make up the shortfall in agriculture?

Happy for you Garp, can't be nice seeing your home washed away, or the fear of it.

My boss left Santiago Chile last night at 11pm.. Was there on business. Hows about that for a close call. He's back on US soil now safe and sound!

R B Customs · 28 Feb 2010 at 00:00

tsunami warning has been cancelled in hawaii.

Teki187 · 28 Feb 2010 at 00:00

R B Customs said:
tsunami warning has been cancelled in hawaii.

Well thank god no one got hurt.

Gypo · 28 Feb 2010 at 02:38

Japan has issued a warning of a tsunami of three metres (10 ft) or higher along its northern Pacific Coast following the devastating earthquake in Chile.

Cosimo · 28 Feb 2010 at 11:32

Gypo said:
Japan has issued a warning of a tsunami of three metres (10 ft) or higher along its northern Pacific Coast following the devastating earthquake in Chile.

The BBC have reported that a tsunami more than 3 foot high has hit Japan's northern Pacific coast, I hope that’s it.

The quakes/aftershocks continue:

http://tsunami.geo.ed.ac.uk/local-bin/quakes/mapscript/demo_run.pl

Greenlizard0 · 28 Feb 2010 at 15:03

A lot of the rest of them have been 10cm high (lol?), it appears it's going to pass through without breaking any records for natural disasters. Chile's a well developed country in comparison to others and think they'll be ok.

Current death toll at the 120 mark approximately.

Keltik THC · 28 Feb 2010 at 16:31

Tsunami Warnings cancelled in Hawaii.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breaki...228-255819/Tsunami-warning-canceled-in-Hawaii

clv101 · 28 Feb 2010 at 17:03

Greenlizard0 said:
Current death toll at the 120 mark approximately.

BBC reporting at least 300 now, also a good video: link

SourChipmunk · 28 Feb 2010 at 17:44

I didn't see this posted yet. As usual, Boston.com doesn't disappoint.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/02/earthquake_in_chile.html

Greenlizard0 · 28 Feb 2010 at 18:00

Fantastic pics, also explains the "tornado" I saw on the BBC front page, it was a building in flames.

Cosimo · 28 Feb 2010 at 22:08

The quake toll now stands at 708.

Spread of the Tsunami in Time(hours) v Height(cm):

Credits NOAA

Garp · 1 Mar 2010 at 02:11

Wow, looks like Hawaii really did dodge a bullet there, almost an island of yellow amongst darker orange sections.

Freefaller · 1 Mar 2010 at 06:31

Thank goodness for that Monsieur Garp! Close shave indeed!

'Wes · 1 Mar 2010 at 08:22

NightSt@lk3r said:
These events are going to get more common as 2012 gets closer.

/facepalm, it's not real the 2012 theory.

jakedude182 · 1 Mar 2010 at 08:48

So it looks to have been a lot less worse than they predicted