The Sphere
General Garbage => Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits => Topic started by: B E C K on Feb 27, 2010, 04:43:19 PM
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Since I never made a Haiti topic, I'll make one for Chile.
From The Wall Street Journal online (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704231304575091611248294970.html?mod=WSJ-hpp-LEADNewsCollection):
The 8.8 magnitude earthquake that struck off coastal Chile in the early hours of the morning is one of the biggest temblors anywhere in more than a century.
Data from the U.S. Geological Survey suggests that this morning's Chile quake tied in fifth place with an 8.8 quake that hit Ecuador and Bolivia in 1906. Only four quakes have been bigger since 1900. The largest was a 9.5 magnitude event that struck Chile in 1960, causing 1,655 fatalities, leaving 2 million homeless, and triggering a tsunami that killed people in Hawaii, Japan and the Philippines.
"This was a big one," said Harley Benz, scientist in charge of the USGS's National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo., which monitors global quake activity in real time. "The Chile quake released 500 times more energy than the quake that hit Haiti."
That's because quake magnitudes are calculated on a logarithmic scale. Thus, a magnitude 8 quake releases 33 times the energy as a magnitude 7 quake, and a magnitude 9 quake releases 33 multiplied by 33 times the energy of a magnitude 7 event. The quake that hit Haiti on Jan. 12 was magnitude 7, and the Chile quake was magnitude 8.8 -- which works out to about 500 times more energy.
Aftershocks are a big worry. After the initial quake, some 50 aftershocks have been recorded in Chile of magnitude 5 or larger, according the NEIC. The largest so far was a 6.9 magnitude aftershock. The Chile temblor's aftershock zone -- the area where fault boundary ruptured -- stretches for 600 kilometers, far larger than the 60-kilometer aftershock zone in Haiti.
[Story continues at the link.]
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Here's a live stream of news coverage with a social feed concerning the tsunami bound for Hawaii:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/hitsunami
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And nothing of value was lost. Next! I put 5 bucks on California
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I watched the news for an hour with my mom waiting for the tsunami to hit Hawaii but it never happened.
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its funny how the main peruvian newspaper has a note in the front page that says "how are the peruvian restaurants in chile doing?"
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I watched the news for an hour with my mom waiting for the tsunami to hit Hawaii but it never happened.
Me and Kary did the same, then she took a shower while I cleaned. Nothing happened, so we went to BJs to buy some eggs and V8.
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And nothing of value was lost. Next! I put 5 bucks on California
Well, you know, nothing besides a bunch of buildings and hundreds of human lives. Seriously? That's one of the coldest, most hateful things I've seen on this board.
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Well, you know, nothing besides a bunch of buildings and hundreds of human lives. Seriously? That's one of the coldest, most hateful things I've seen on this board.
Oh, please. I've been much more cold and hateful. FUCK! I wish I had that title now.
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Haters gonna hate!
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Don't hate the player, hate those damn people in Chile for having an earthquake.
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Living in a region with some of the highest mountains and the lowest oceanic trenches can't possibly be bad, right? RIGHT!?
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you forgot "and stealing land from peru every certain number of years"
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No. Who really cares about that?
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Oh, it is in South America? Oh, who cares then? =)
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I read a prophecy somewhere that said that sometime in the future the whole world was going to be covered by water except Peru. So start looking into real estate!
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Yeah, prophecies are almost alway wrong.
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So it's either drown or live in Peru? I'll have to think about it.
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So it's either drown or live in Peru? I'll have to think about it.
I can swim and I live in a state with many boats.
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Dude, I read some article today about some Haitian folks who escaped Haiti after their earthquake and went to Chile. Yeah, that's gotta suck.
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And nothing of value was lost. Next! I put 5 bucks on California
Well, you know, nothing besides a bunch of buildings and hundreds of human lives. Seriously? That's one of the coldest, most hateful things I've seen on this board.
You must have forgot that Faye's a dumb stuck up self-centered whore of a bitch.
The news milked that god damn tsunami so much I was actually disappointed when Hawaii didn't sink into the ocean. The way CNN went on about it, the world was ending. All that drama and nothing to show for it, no destroyed buildings or drowning people...
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Yeah, I'm getting sick of the media drama. If we ever face some Armageddon/Deep Impact-type threat we'll all be boned because the bloody media will overhype the entire situation and put everyone into a hysteria of looting, shanking, and raping when most of us would probably be okay just calmly getting to higher ground while Bruce Willis dies.
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The other day me and Kary were hiking in the woods behind my house, and we found a well line literally in the middle-of-nowhere. I'm convinced someone put a Bomb Shelter out there.
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But wouldn't RI pretty much be Trident's kingdom in the event of a Deep Impact-type situation?
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Probably, though if that were the case I'd just run up to the mountains of Vermont and NH.
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Yo you just stumbled onto some government shiet.
You must have forgot that Faye's a dumb stuck up self-centered whore of a bitch.
LOL @ this coming from a pedo. Nice.
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But at least he's not a dumb stuck up self-centered pedo? Right? =)
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Like Michael Jackson?
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Yeah, I'm getting sick of the media drama. If we ever face some Armageddon/Deep Impact-type threat we'll all be boned because the bloody media will overhype the entire situation and put everyone into a hysteria of looting, shanking, and raping when most of us would probably be okay just calmly getting to higher ground while Bruce Willis dies.
The worst part of it was the fact that every little wave, every little change in the ocean, the camera crews were like "WHAT IS THAT? I SEE SOMETHING CHANGING! I SEE SOMETHING HAPPENING! SOMETHING IS DEFINITELY HAPPENING!!!" The coral reefs were visible because it was low tide and they thought it meant the sea had recessed like it does before a big wave hits. Even thought a recession before a real wave would be a lot quicker and more noticeable than the water gently receding during low tides.