evangilder
"Shooter"
An 8.8 quake rocked Chile this morning. It looks like it shook for 90 seconds! 8.8-magnitude earthquake hits central Chile - Yahoo! News
8.8 Earthquake strikes Chile
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B-17engineer
Colonel
Sad, saw about it on the news this morning. 
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evangilder
"Shooter"
Last I heard, the death toll was 78, but I am sure that will rise today as the sun rises and they start to dig out. 8.8 is huge. I also heard about a 6.9 near Okinawa as well. Whole lotta shakin' goin' on.
B-17engineer
Colonel
Yea, it wasn't a huge one but we had a 2.8 earthquake over here....last week first I have ever felt. It was kinda scary although it wasn't really that bad.
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evangilder
"Shooter"
I have been through a few 6+, a bunch of 5s and countless 4s and below. You learn to live with it in California. The Northridge quake of 1994 was the worse one I have been through. I remember screaming at one point and then thinking "Holy crap, I can't even hear myself screaming". It was really loud and unbelievable.
Colin1
Senior Master Sergeant
Has anyone noted the greater frequency of big quakes recently and their seemingly random distribution around the globe?
When I was a kid, I thought earthquakes were something that happened to Japan and San Francisco, you didn't really hear about them anywhere else
When I was a kid, I thought earthquakes were something that happened to Japan and San Francisco, you didn't really hear about them anywhere else
B-17engineer
Colonel
Wow Eric, scary 
Tsunami has been generated. Been moving through the Pacific at speeds of a jet liner. Expected to hit Hawaii an other parts of the pacific within 24 hours.
RabidAlien
1st Lieutenant
Holy crap, TWO more, plus a tsunami??? Colin, I was thinkin the same thing, myself.
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evangilder
"Shooter"
Tsunami waves are expected in SoCal in about 5 hours. They aren't expected to be too large here, fortantely. Although we are in the midst of a big rainstorm, so it probably won't get noticed.
syscom3
Pacific Historian
There really isn't a statistical increase in seismic activity. You have to look at the occurrences on a decade/century timescale. And the frequency of large quakes along the Pacific Ring of Fire, is actually significant over a 2 - 3 year period.
This looks to be the 4th earthquake of this magnitude for this area, since records have been kept.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqinthenews/2010/us2010tfan/
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/
Earthquake statistics are here:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/year/eqstats.php
Global earthquakes sorted per magnitude.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/world/historical_mag.php
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Hawaii has now started the sirens and evacuations. A tsunami with a wave of 15 feet is expected to hit Hawaii in less than 5 hours.
Acapulco, Mexico is expected to get hit within the next 10 min.
Acapulco, Mexico is expected to get hit within the next 10 min.
vikingBerserker
Lieutenant General
15ft, dam that is some serious water.
Colin1
Senior Master Sergeant
RabidAlien
1st Lieutenant
Guarantee you that Pearl Harbor is empty of everything, including tugs, right now. 15' wall of water...that's a huge wave, with a LOT of force behind it! Hope everyone's smart and gets the heck outta the area...bet there's at least one surfer who tries it, though.
syscom3
Pacific Historian
Pearl Harbor is not much at risk for the tsunami due to its restricted (geologically speaking) assess to/from the sea.
Pong
Staff Sergeant
There is a tsunami warning here in the P.I as well as Japan and even Australia.
I heard that 10 foot waves are expected to come to shore.
I heard that 10 foot waves are expected to come to shore.
Matt308
Glock Perfection
...and they are saying that they are going to last for a couple of hours. Not just a single wave. Not sure how that works.
RabidAlien
1st Lieutenant
Restricted access or not, there's a standing order for all ships in port, that are physically capable, to put out to sea in event of hurricane or tsunami, whether they have a full crew compliment on board or not. Tsunamis and hurricanes don't care much about the low-lands between the open ocean and the port.
Looks like Hawaii was spared. The largest wave was only 6 feet. The authorities there had 16 hours to evacuate everyone. No fatalities, injuries or damage has been reported.
