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2010-02-27 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
8.5 Quake hits Chile, Tsunami warning issued for Chile, Peru and Ecuador
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Posted by Oztralian 2010-02-27 03:09|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ]  Top

#1 "Sea level readings indicate a tsunami was generated," the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said on its Web site. "It may have been destructive along coasts near the earthquake epicenter and could also be a threat to more distant coasts."

It did not have details on the size of the tsunami.
Posted by Oztralian 2010-02-27 03:30||   2010-02-27 03:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Earthquake upgraded to 8.8 !
Posted by Oztralian 2010-02-27 03:35||   2010-02-27 03:35|| Front Page Top

#3 CNN reporting Tsunami wave as high as 9 feet has been recorded.
Posted by Oztralian 2010-02-27 03:42||   2010-02-27 03:42|| Front Page Top

#4 It was only 5 Km offshore. I don't expect much left on that shoreline.
Posted by phil_b 2010-02-27 04:36||   2010-02-27 04:36|| Front Page Top

#5 ENTIRE Pacific Rim, including Australia, under tsunami threat.
Posted by Oztralian 2010-02-27 06:14||   2010-02-27 06:14|| Front Page Top

#6 53 Nations now on Tsunami alert.
Posted by Oztralian 2010-02-27 07:05||   2010-02-27 07:05|| Front Page Top

#7 Stay safe, Oztralian.
Posted by trailing wife 2010-02-27 07:59||   2010-02-27 07:59|| Front Page Top

#8 According to Reuters, 78 known dead, quake centered near the college town of Concepcion, some damage to buildings and roads/bridges. Nothing like Haiti, though, because earthquakes are fairly common in Chili, so they build appropriately. AP has more, including historical perspective:

The largest earthquake ever recorded struck the same area of Chile on May 22, 1960. The magnitude-9.5 quake killed 1,655 people and left 2 million homeless. The tsunami that it caused killed people in Hawaii, Japan and the Philippines and caused damage to the west coast of the United States.
Posted by trailing wife 2010-02-27 08:13||   2010-02-27 08:13|| Front Page Top

#9 Hawaii, Guam, Am Samoa under Tsunami warning.
Posted by 3dc 2010-02-27 08:34||   2010-02-27 08:34|| Front Page Top

#10 Tsunami expected in Hawaii 11:19am local time. They're going to sound the sirens at 6am.

I'm safe from tsunamis, on the volcano.
Posted by Angie Schultz 2010-02-27 09:07||   2010-02-27 09:07|| Front Page Top

#11 CNN reporter twisting into a pretzel to avoid using the unPC term 'looters':

"Shop windows are broken and people are entering through the broken windows and removing merchandize".

LOL!
Posted by Gomez Threter7450 2010-02-27 09:19||   2010-02-27 09:19|| Front Page Top

#12 ...been in the CNN Newspeak dictionary since Katrina.
Posted by Procopius2k 2010-02-27 09:40||   2010-02-27 09:40|| Front Page Top

#13 Usual suspects bitching about the lack of US response to the situation in 5....4....3....
Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2010-02-27 11:28||   2010-02-27 11:28|| Front Page Top

#14 #13 Usual suspects bitching about the lack of US response to the situation in 5....4....3....
Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie 2010-02-27 11:28

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You took the words right out of my mouth.
:-)
Posted by WolfDog 2010-02-27 11:41||   2010-02-27 11:41|| Front Page Top

#15 Is this the same South America that is in the process of forming an OAS-like group excluding the evil North Americans (US and Canada)?

Let me get out my checkbook - or not.
Posted by Hellfish 2010-02-27 12:22||   2010-02-27 12:22|| Front Page Top

#16 or not
Posted by chris 2010-02-27 12:30||   2010-02-27 12:30|| Front Page Top

#17 A huge wave measuring 7.7 feet (2.34 metres) crashed onto the Chilean coastal town of Talcahuano early Saturday triggered by a massive earthquake, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said.

Talcahuano is on a deep north facing bay about 100 km south of the epicenter. The bay would have concentrated the tsunami.

I doubt the wave will amount to much on the other side of the Pacific.
Posted by phil_b 2010-02-27 12:47||   2010-02-27 12:47|| Front Page Top

#18 Chile joined the OECD a month ago. So the richest and poorest countries in Latin America have been devastated by temblors in the last 6 months.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-02-27 12:54||   2010-02-27 12:54|| Front Page Top

#19 US Coast Guard has asked all ships to move out of Hawaiian ports and the siren to evacuate has sounded. Maybe 8' waves on all sides of the islands may be hit with smaller bays hit with larger waves.
Posted by Omoluque Hapsburg8162 2010-02-27 13:20||   2010-02-27 13:20|| Front Page Top

#20 Any rantburgers in Crescent City, Ca, or coastal Alaska? The bays may have problems - will the waves coincide with high tide?
Posted by Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division 2010-02-27 15:11||   2010-02-27 15:11|| Front Page Top

#21 Pacific Tsunami Warning Center
Posted by tu3031 2010-02-27 15:19||   2010-02-27 15:19|| Front Page Top

#22 For your amusement, MSNBC asks 'Is nature out of control?'

Left unanswered: are seismic events packing the energy of ~15 billion tons of TNT ever under 'control?'
Posted by Free Radical 2010-02-27 16:31||   2010-02-27 16:31|| Front Page Top

#23 Any word yet on how this all affects global climate change, or Pres. Bush's involvement?
Posted by Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division 2010-02-27 17:13||   2010-02-27 17:13|| Front Page Top

#24 The good news? At this time 58.1% of PMSNBC pollees think Nature is not out of control.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-02-27 17:33||   2010-02-27 17:33|| Front Page Top

#25 Tsunami waves hitting Hawaii now...
Posted by tu3031 2010-02-27 17:49||   2010-02-27 17:49|| Front Page Top

#26 The original quake has triggered a large number of secondary quakes. Google Earth shows at least 50 - mag 5.0 to 6.5.
Posted by phil_b 2010-02-27 18:22||   2010-02-27 18:22|| Front Page Top

#27 Has anyone blamed it on Globull Worming yet?
Posted by CrazyFool 2010-02-27 18:50||   2010-02-27 18:50|| Front Page Top

#28 Has anyone blamed it on Globull Worming yet?

No but its clearly the fault of the previous administration.

Posted by OldSpook 2010-02-27 19:18||   2010-02-27 19:18|| Front Page Top

#29 Has anyone blamed it on Globull Worming yet?

Give it a couple of days. The GW religion is full of people like Danny Glover, whose thought processes and understanding are so garbled that they think climate affects earthquakes, or the other way round, etc.
Posted by phil_b 2010-02-27 19:52||   2010-02-27 19:52|| Front Page Top

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