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8.8 earthquake hits Chile

Started by Syt, February 27, 2010, 04:05:08 AM

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CountDeMoney

Surf's up.

QuoteHawaii braced Saturday for a potentially damaging tsunami, after a massive earthquake off Chile sent waves across the Pacific Ocean.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued a tsunami warning — its highest alert — for Hawaii, where incoming waves could cause damage along the coastlines across the island chain. A warning was also in effect for Guam, American Samoa and dozens of other Pacific islands.

The first waves were expected to arrive in Hawaii at 11:19 a.m. Saturday (4:19 p.m. EST).

Caliga

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The Larch

I have a friend in the region where the earthquake tool place, in the northern suburbs of the city near the epicenter. We haven't heard anything from her yet.

The Larch

Quote from: jimmy olsen on February 27, 2010, 04:53:34 AM
It doesn't seem to have been near any major population centers so hopefully there weren't many casualties.

Concepción, 90 km. away from the epicenter, is the 2nd biggest city of Chile. More than one million people live in the area.

Neil

I do not hate you, nor do I love you, but you are made out of atoms which I can use for something else.

DontSayBanana

Quote from: Neil on February 27, 2010, 12:17:46 PM
Tidal waves, goddammit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_wave

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsunami

A tsunami is a tidal wave, Neil; it's also specifically reserved for a tidal wave directly caused by seismic activity. :contract:
Experience bij!

Neil

We didn't win WWII to speak Japanese.
I do not hate you, nor do I love you, but you are made out of atoms which I can use for something else.

Lettow77

 Hope Chile is okay. Was playing a game with an incompetent chilean girl yesterday. They are the cream of the south american crop.
It can't be helped...We'll have to use 'that'

Razgovory

I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

The Brain

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katmai

A few friends flew out to Maui yesterday for their spring break holidays (teachers)
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The Brain

So any more news about the punami?
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garbon

Quote from: CountDeMoney on February 27, 2010, 06:37:49 AM
If they were crying because their local GLBT book store collapsed, you wouldn't have said shit.  So fuck off.

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garbon

"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Caliga

Quote from: The Brain on February 27, 2010, 05:53:58 PM
So any more news about the punami?
Geraldo rushed to the scene, which resulted in nothing happening. :)
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