This thing is huge....they say it is about 65x stronger than the one that hit Haiti. Tsunami warnings were issued all over the Pacific including Hawaii and the West Coast of the U.S. One day California is going to disappear into the ocean which is why I moved the hell out of there.
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8.8-magnitude earthquake hits central Chile; tsunami warnings issued for Hawaii, Australia, South America
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, February 27, 2010; 1:50 PM
SANTIAGO, Chile -- A massive earthquake rocked Chile before dawn on Saturday, killing at least 147 people and triggering tsunami waves that threatened much of the Pacific region. Emergency warning sirens blared in Hawaii as coastal residents scrambled to prepare.
Asia braces for tsunami after Chile quake
Hawaii under tsunami warning, emergency response plans underway
8.8-magnitude earthquake hits central Chile
The magnitude-8.8 quake was the worst in Chile in half a century. As the earth heaved, bridges buckled, homes collapsed into piles of bricks and cars flipped over. In Concepcion, a southern city near the epicenter, explosions rocked the main university as vials of laboratory chemicals shattered and ignited a building.
Within hours of the quake, the entire Pacific rim, from Japan to Australia, was on tsunami alert. A set of turbulent and destructive waves topping out at six feet and moving at high speed are expected to reach Hawaii about 11:05 a.m. local time (4:05 p.m. EST).
"Six feet is a lot. Tsunamis have a lot of force behind them," Jenifer Rhoades, Tsunami Program Manager for the National Weather Service.
At 6 a.m. local time, sirens wailed on the Hawaiian coast alerting people to tune into television and radio stations for instructions. Those living in areas susceptible to the tsunami will be instructed to evacuate, said Shelly Ichishita, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Civil Defense.
A tsunami advisory -- less urgent than a warning -- has been posted for the U.S. and Canadian west coast and coastal Alaska, Rhoades said. Although there may not be large waves there, the currents can become dangerous, she said.
In Chile, the most dramatic scenes were around Concepcion, the country's second-largest city, where an estimated 130 people were trapped inside a new 14-story building that collapsed.
The 3:34 a.m. quake churned up huge waves that smashed into the coast. One of them swept away the police station and a craft market in the village of Iloca, where residents fled to the hills.
Santiago, about 200 miles northeast of the epicenter, was enveloped Saturday in a gray cloud of dust and smoke from fires. Highway overpasses, billboards and the roofs of many buildings collapsed, filling the streets with debris. Cracks zigzagged across major roads, widening into holes large enough to swallow up a motorcycle.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/27/AR2010022700229.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/quake_tsunami
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8.8-magnitude earthquake hits central Chile; tsunami warnings issued for Hawaii, Australia, South America
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, February 27, 2010; 1:50 PM
SANTIAGO, Chile -- A massive earthquake rocked Chile before dawn on Saturday, killing at least 147 people and triggering tsunami waves that threatened much of the Pacific region. Emergency warning sirens blared in Hawaii as coastal residents scrambled to prepare.
Asia braces for tsunami after Chile quake
Hawaii under tsunami warning, emergency response plans underway
8.8-magnitude earthquake hits central Chile
The magnitude-8.8 quake was the worst in Chile in half a century. As the earth heaved, bridges buckled, homes collapsed into piles of bricks and cars flipped over. In Concepcion, a southern city near the epicenter, explosions rocked the main university as vials of laboratory chemicals shattered and ignited a building.
Within hours of the quake, the entire Pacific rim, from Japan to Australia, was on tsunami alert. A set of turbulent and destructive waves topping out at six feet and moving at high speed are expected to reach Hawaii about 11:05 a.m. local time (4:05 p.m. EST).
"Six feet is a lot. Tsunamis have a lot of force behind them," Jenifer Rhoades, Tsunami Program Manager for the National Weather Service.
At 6 a.m. local time, sirens wailed on the Hawaiian coast alerting people to tune into television and radio stations for instructions. Those living in areas susceptible to the tsunami will be instructed to evacuate, said Shelly Ichishita, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Civil Defense.
A tsunami advisory -- less urgent than a warning -- has been posted for the U.S. and Canadian west coast and coastal Alaska, Rhoades said. Although there may not be large waves there, the currents can become dangerous, she said.
In Chile, the most dramatic scenes were around Concepcion, the country's second-largest city, where an estimated 130 people were trapped inside a new 14-story building that collapsed.
The 3:34 a.m. quake churned up huge waves that smashed into the coast. One of them swept away the police station and a craft market in the village of Iloca, where residents fled to the hills.
Santiago, about 200 miles northeast of the epicenter, was enveloped Saturday in a gray cloud of dust and smoke from fires. Highway overpasses, billboards and the roofs of many buildings collapsed, filling the streets with debris. Cracks zigzagged across major roads, widening into holes large enough to swallow up a motorcycle.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/27/AR2010022700229.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/quake_tsunami
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