Earthquake in Chile

[brettmojo]

Get your wallets out folks, George Clooney gonna' need your cash again.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2010/02/100227-tsunami-warning-for-hawaii-after-huge-chile-earthquake/

Rick Lovett
National Geographic News
Published February 27, 2010
A magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off the coast of Chile late yesterday evening (10:34 PST), killing scores of people in Chile and causing Hawaii to brace for its biggest tsunami since the Alaskan earthquake of 1964.

The tsunami alert went out hours before the first waves, traveling at the speed of a passenger jetliner, were expected to hit Hawaii at 11:19 this morning, local time.

Tourists and coastal residents are expected to wake up to tsunami alarms and evacuation instructions several hours earlier, tsunami authorities told the Associated Press.

The earthquake occurred along the junction of the Nazca and South American tectonic plates, which are colliding off the coast of Chile at a rate of 80 millimeters per year.

The coastline of Chile is one of the most active tectonic zones in the world, with 13 temblors of magnitude 7.0 or greater since 1973, the U.S. Geological Survey reports on its earthquake-monitoring Website.

I can't wait for another "WE ARE THE WORLD" and so soon after the last one! Yippie!!!

[WRESTLINGFAN]

Is it due to climate change?

[Dan 'Hampton]

Chileans have always been cursed. Google it.

[brettmojo]

Is it due to climate change?
More than likely El Nino related. Both are Hispanic.

[Sinestro]

Can't wait for the Chili cookoff benefit for Chile.

[Sinestro]

and the ripple effects will be felt in Hawaii. That's one big wave.

[Sinestro]

Run to the grocery store and stock up on Chili before the prices go up.

[WRESTLINGFAN]

The Red ot Chili Peppers concert has been canceled

[Dan 'Hampton]

I had a feeling with the weather change.

[brettmojo]

I sure hope this guy is OK, there's no word yet...

http://www.riprense.com/images/chillywilly.jpg

[Sinestro]

Selling my Chili stocks for a penny. Buy Buy Buy!!!

[WRESTLINGFAN]

Word is that he was on vacation there and he is safe


http://caimages.collectors.com/psaimages/3948/31674479/88ToppsTradedChiliDavis.jpg

[WRESTLINGFAN]

I hope the casualties are minimized and the sea bass isnt affected

[Sinestro]

Now it puts more pressure on the Chilean Olympic team to bring back Gold from the Winter Olympics.

[Sinestro]

Kanye West quoted by the AP Press: "Ronfez.net don't care for Chilean People!"

[WRESTLINGFAN]

At dinner tonight, I will raise a glass of Chilean wine for the people there

[midwestjeff]

The news is reporting that the only buildings left standing
are the ones designed by Pat Healy.

http://static.reelmovienews.com/images/gallery/mary-and-pat-healy.jpg

[Judge Smails]

All I want to say is that I made a simple little innocent joke about the Haiti earthquake as soon as the thread was posted and I was reemed out for over a week. You guys are all going to hell for making light of this.

This is a tragic situation. I just saw a distraught mother on the news running around the rubble of her home in Chile screaming "I want my baby back, baby back, baby back!"

[Melrapuo]

Well at least we won't have to hear about Haiti anymore.

[Dan 'Hampton]

No wonder I had an weird urge to buy chilie powder this morning.

[sailor]

All I want to say is that I made a simple little innocent joke about the Haiti earthquake as soon as the thread was posted and I was reemed out for over a week. You guys are all going to hell for making light of this.

This is a tragic situation. I just saw a distraught mother on the news running around the rubble of her home in Chile screaming "I want my baby back, baby back, baby back!"

that's just cold.

[Dan 'Hampton]

Haha

[Judge Smails]

OH NOES!!!

http://www.e-imagesite.com/Files2/43975970.gif

[mikeyboy]

The news is reporting that the only buildings left standing
are the ones designed by Pat Healy.

http://static.reelmovienews.com/images/gallery/mary-and-pat-healy.jpg

This one was funny. The rest of you are hacks.

[TeeBone]

At dinner tonight, I will raise a glass of Chilean wine for the people there

Try a nice bottle of Terra Andina - Reserva 2006. Its a Chilean Pinot and is modestly priced. Very good Pinot. Probably one of my favorites. :thumbup:

[Meataball23]

Can't wait for the Chili cookoff benefit for Chile.

Im there w/ a big wooden spoon and guatamalen insanity peppers

[sailor]

hope the rugby players are ok.

[brettmojo]

All I want to say is that I made a simple little innocent joke about the Haiti earthquake as soon as the thread was posted and I was reemed out for over a week. You guys are all going to hell for making light of this.

This is a tragic situation. I just saw a distraught mother on the news running around the rubble of her home in Chile screaming "I want my baby back, baby back, baby back!"
I loffed and loffed.

[Dan 'Hampton]

The dumb bitch on fox news is freaking out because people are watching the waves from the 'coast' which appears to be about 300' above sea level on a cliff.

[sailor]

tsunami expected to hit in next two minutes. i hope all these idiots in hawaii die. either that or two foot waves.

[Dan 'Hampton]

Cable news is hoping that too.

[sailor]

yeah, looks like they're pretty high up. now it's boring.

[Furtherman]

I just saw a surfer out there.

[brettmojo]

Imagine if the ocean just started pulling back out to sea... Freak out time.

[HBox]

The dumb bitch on fox news is freaking out because people are watching the waves from the 'coast' which appears to be about 300' above sea level on a cliff.

Give her a break. She's there for her looks, not for her brains.

[Sinestro]

Give her a break. She's there for her looks, not for her brains.

No good without pics

[brettmojo]

What a fucking cock tease.

[Furtherman]

Now I'm whale watching.

[HBox]

Some dumb cunt on MSNBC is also shocked that people are watching the tsunami from a huge cliff.

[brettmojo]

I'm getting reports in now of a lot of sand castles being completely destroyed by this tsunami. Our thoughts and prayers are with the toddlers who built them and their families.

The guy on CNN reporting from the cliff doesn't understand how the tides work.

[dino_electropolis]

This is a tragic situation. I just saw a distraught mother on the news running around the rubble of her home in Chile screaming "I want my baby back, baby back, baby back ribs!"


hey we've all jonesed for some good ribs, but to be screaming, and after an earthquake, is just selfish, not tragic.

[Sinestro]

Stuff is funny when it's not happening or involving you personally. My condolences and sympathy to the people of Chile.

[WRESTLINGFAN]

I'm getting reports in now of a lot of sand castles being completely destroyed by this tsunami. Our thoughts and prayers are with the toddlers who built them and their families.

The guy on CNN reporting from the cliff doesn't understand how the tides work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0skjm-uJSs

[johnniehardrock]

Seriously they have been covering this tsunami like it was massive and as of now its a 3' wave. I make bigger splashes when I jump in the pool.

[sailor]

Seriously they have been covering this tsunami like it was massive and as of now its a 3' wave. I make bigger splashes when I jump in the pool.

i called it.

[pennington]

Seriously they have been covering this tsunami like it was massive and as of now its a 3' wave. I make bigger splashes when I jump in the pool.

Hey, let's not minimize this. If you were standing near the water when this hit, your pants would have gotten wet. Maybe if you had some papers in your pocket, the ink might run. Now things don't look so rosy, do they?

[Dan 'Hampton]

Cell phones could have been ruined. Bet cell insurance goes up over this.

[Dan 'Hampton]

Larry King seriously just asked some guy from NOAA if he knew what language tsunami came from.

[HBox]

Larry King seriously just asked some guy from NOAA if he knew what language tsunami came from.

How important is the water to a tsunami?

[Dan 'Hampton]

Michio kaku looks like a dead Asian. And geraldo just asked him in seriousness if the earthquake could have been the result of human activity. When watching 'news' assume you know more about any subject than the presenter.

[Dan 'Hampton]

And now he's got dog the bounty hunter on skype as a coresponsant. This could be the most pointless saturday night of my life.

[HBox]

And now he's got dog the bounty hunter on skype as a coresponsant. This could be the most pointless saturday night of my life.

Next we have a correspondent in front of the wrestler Earthquake's grave. He will attempt to communicate with dead to get insight into today's tragedy.

[Dan 'Hampton]

I'm back on king now. I though the bit on o and a was a joke, but it's almost understating how simplistic and childish his questioning is. And this is coming from a high school educated carpenter.

[Furtherman]

Incredible pictures of the quake. (http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/02/earthquake_in_chile.html)

[Dan 'Hampton]

I think it was sunday night CNN was showing footage that someone took as the earthquake happened. Pretty freaky stuff. looked and sounded like Cloverfield.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H6UG8cyXDk&feature=related

[Zorro]

And now he's got dog the bounty hunter on skype as a coresponsant. This could be the most pointless saturday night of my life.

He always felt like a Chilean

[Dude!]

i feel bad for snookie

[Dan 'Hampton]

i saw some white trash little fat girl driving around today with Snooki hair.

[JohnGacysCrawlSpace]

NASA: Quake Shifted Earth's Axis, Shortened Day:

http://www.aolnews.com/world/article/nasa-chile-quake-shifted-earths-axis-shortened-day/19378491

[brettmojo]

NASA: Quake Shifted Earth's Axis, Shortened Day:

http://www.aolnews.com/world/article/nasa-chile-quake-shifted-earths-axis-shortened-day/19378491
Ah shit.

[~Katja~]

NASA: Quake Shifted Earth's Axis, Shortened Day:

http://www.aolnews.com/world/article/nasa-chile-quake-shifted-earths-axis-shortened-day/19378491

beat me to it, just read the same and was going to post it.
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/earth-20100301.html

[Dude!]

Ah shit.

i was already pressed for time
i'm going to miss that
1.26 millionths of a second

[Furtherman]

There is also some footage coming out of the strange lights in the sky right before the quake. This is a natural phenomenon that isn't well understood, but there were also lights seen before the 2004 Indonesian Quake and recent quakes in China.

Unfortunately, most of these videos will be labeled UFO or HAARP lights. They're still pretty cool though:

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[~Katja~]

There is also some footage coming out of the strange lights in the sky right before the quake. This is a natural phenomenon that isn't well understood, but there were also lights seen before the 2004 Indonesian Quake and recent quakes in China.

Unfortunately, most of these videos will be labeled UFO or HAARP lights. They're still pretty cool though:

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<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4_iK1kG4TCo&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="340" width="560"></object>

were they accidentally captured or why did the person filming this not walk around the damn tree for a better view?
I can see those lights 'emerging' before a quake from the magnetic energy, gravity and the sun's energy fields involved and the magnetic polarity changing when the ground expands and submerges.
Now I am going to be searching for videos of those lights :)

[Furtherman]

were they accidentally captured

This one was accidentally captured.

[jckkeith]

8.8 is huge. huge huge huge. and for 90 seconds. that magnitude and duration would challenge even the most earthquake-proof construction. The earthquake has actually made our days shorter by 1.26 microseconds, since it has shifted mass inwards. So like a spinning ice skater pulling their arms in, earth rotations has fastened.

[Contra]

8.8 is huge. huge huge huge. and for 90 seconds. that magnitude and duration would challenge even the most earthquake-proof construction. The earthquake has actually made our days shorter by 1.26 microseconds, since it has shifted mass inwards. So like a spinning ice skater pulling their arms in, earth rotations has fastened.

And remember, if you only bring one arm in and not the other you get a wobble effect!