Chile Quake

 

Hope no one has family or friends in Chile. If so they are ok. Looks like Hawaii is getting ready for some bad weather also. sad

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johnm405 660 & MSS&T

Thoughts with those in

Thoughts with those in Chile, hoping for the best for those in Hawaii...

Chile Quake

I have friends that live on the coast in Hawaii. They have been evacuated to higher ground. They will be OK but don't know about the house. In another hour or so we should know.

Chile Quake

avandyke wrote:

I have friends that live on the coast in Hawaii. They have been evacuated to higher ground. They will be OK but don't know about the house. In another hour or so we should know.

Hope everything goes well for them and all over there. Let us know.

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johnm405 660 & MSS&T

I guess it was a good thing

I guess it was a good thing it was off the coast...8.8 is a whopper. Haven't heard of one that big in a while.

Chile Quake

As you probably know, we no longer use the old Richter Scale. The intensity of an earthquake now includes the area affected in the calculation. Haiti was a 7.0 but it was extremely violent in a very small area, basically the capital city, and was a fault slippage quake.

The Chile quake was an 8.8 meaning it was about 800 times as energetic as the Haiti quake but was a plate subduction earthquake resulting in uplift, and covered a much larger area, so it was far less violent in any one place.

We have friends in Santiago & Colina (10 miles north) & hope they got thru ok.

Fred

Chile Quake

Well reading the news it looks like Hawaii may miss the brunt of it. Thats goood.

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johnm405 660 & MSS&T

HI

Hawaii was fortunately okay. I've a brother and his family there. As for Chile, I hope death toll isn't too high.

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Michael (Nuvi 2639LMT)

Weather of 2009 - 2010

Earthquakes - Snow & bitter cold in a lot of the US this Winter season. Wow, and the year has just started.

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JG - Nuvi 2460

Wish for the best

Hope it is not as bad as the 8.8 implies.

8.8 is bad. and I heard it

8.8 is bad.
and I heard it lasted for about a minute.