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8.2 Earthquake Off the Coast of Chile, Tsunami Triggered
An 8.2-magnitude earthquake has struck roughly 60km off the cost of Chile. Its depth was approximately 20.1km. A tsunami has been generated, and evacuations have been ordered along the coast near the strike. Tsunami warnings were also issued for Peru and Ecuador. According to the Associated Press,
"Coastal residents of northern Chile evacuated calmly as waves measuring almost 2 meters (6 1/2 feet) struck ahead of a tsunami that was expected to come ashore later. ... Chile's emergency service reported some roads blocked by landslides caused by the quake, but said no injuries had been reported so far."
Really?
get the magnitude wrong.
7.7
8.2
8.0
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/c...
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by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
this is a major event... but I do have to point out how hilarious it would be if the tsunami decided to peter out a half mile from the shore, like Mother Nature's own little April Fools' joke.
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.
You should have used APK's hosts.txt.
Hail Eris, full of mischief...
E pluribus sanguinem
"The 8.0 earthquake that just hit Chile was 794 times bigger than the 5.1 we had in LA last week" (credit goes to @AndrewSiciliano)
Posting from Chile here. Chile is an extremely seismic country. Construction codes and techniques require and plan for buildings to resist a 9.0 earthquake (by resist it's meant that no matter the damage to the building, even if it becomes uninhabitable, it should allow all the occupants to evacuate safely) and usually anything below 7.6 is not really reported as a major earthquake. In 2010 we had a major earthquake (8.8, 11th strongest in recorded history) and all the regions that had previously experienced a major quake (1985 in Santiago,1960 in Valdivia, and so on), and thus where rebuilt using the modern construction standards, experienced very little damage due to the quake itself. Of all people that where killed in 2010, less than 1000, most of them where due to the tsunami that ensued. The southern cities however where severely damaged as many homes where quite old and built using "adobe" mud bricks.
The northern region that was hit today had already suffered two ~7.8 earthquakes in 2005 and 2007 and most of the construction was done using modern standards. The information is slowly coming in, but so far no casualties are reported. Right now all coastal cities have been evacuated as tsunami alarms where sounded, including massive SMS alerts and emergency alerts sent directly to Android phones.
Video of one of the evacuation/tsunami alerts sent to Android phones in the coastal cities of the region that was hit by the eartquake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK1RcGDaFb8
A beacon of democracy? Chile had at least 5 military internventions in the 20th century.
how in the hell a flamebait like this is modded +5 Informative?
And Chile is not a beacon of democracy: they had the worst dictatorship (and the longer) in the whole south america.
Yes, they have a good rate of gdp/capita. But mostly because they are sitting on a giant copper mine.
Not to mention that New Orleans should not be there any more. A new city was built a long time ago on the other side of the lake, but a few people insisted on not moving and rather getting flooded multiple times.
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
And worse, they still haven't judged the ones who were responsible for the deaths during the dictatorship.
Pinochet has left the building.
You know the difference between present and past?
What the hell does George W. Bush have to do with South America?
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
From the fine article: "Officials reported two deaths and several serious injuries...". It's the first paragraph in the damn article.
The summary is at best misleading, misquoting a paragraph discussing the *peruvian* injuries (of which there are none reported). Chilean injuries and deaths have occurred. ... but this is slashdot, where outright wrong summaries are the norm.
The world has moved on.
Posting April Fools jokes about earthquakes is over the top. I hate how /. is just useless this day every year.
Nothing and neither does New Orleans, but some people are pretty clueless and feel the need to bring up there ignorant pet issues under the flimsiest of reasons.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
two population centers in different parts of the Americas destroyed by a wall of water during a natural disaster, with two different government responses to compare. seems perfectly fair game to me. NOLA was a complete and utter fail for GWB, to a level which is still astonishing. let's see what Chile's damage and response looks like.
I agree, offtopic would have sufficed...
Kanye, is that you?
The butterfly effect, of course!
Ezekiel 23:20
Stroessner in Paraguay lasted a whopping 34 years. Suck on that, Chile!!!
So you imply that Argentina is better off than Chile? Have you been drinking too much of Kretina's kool aid???
Global Hydrocarbon Extraction is the cause.
Where's Al Gore?
It's the true solution to end Global Warming. Not higher taxes.
Stop GHE!
A lot back in the day via utterly stupid foreign policy, but in the long run a lot less than his father and probably ignorable today.
6 killed as huge 8.2 earthquake off Chile. Here is one of the Earth Quake video at Chile Super Market..BBC Broadcast this http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...
What system uses a hosts.txt file? We're all familiar with the hosts (no .txt extension) file.
An 8.2-magnitude earthquake has struck roughly 60km off the cost of Chile. Its depth was approximately 20.1km. A tsunami has been generated, and evacuations have been ordered along the coast near the strike. Tsunami warnings were also issued for Peru and Ecuador.
This text reads like it was auto-generated by some computer connected to a sensor somewhere.
Allende was a democratic elected president, you moron.
Cost free eBook I read (by iBook/Kobo/Amazon/ObookO/Gutenberg etc.): "The Green Odyssey" by Philip Jose Farmer.
So was Hitler.
If only I had something called a "seismic cloak", I could have used it here. The cycle from discovery to practice is just too long. Dang.
Not completely correct. Allende won the most votes but not above the 50% required to become president. It was Congress that granted him the title afterwards. Note that all this was in line with the then-current Chilean Constitution.
Well, this doesn't help with the point, Right? How Chile can be a beacon of democrac if it had a dictator after dictator? According to you words.
Nuff said.
A president may be elected democratically and yet may be a fascist dictator. Chavez, Maduro, for example. Ring a bell? oh wait, they are leftist! so they must be OK in your book, yes,
Perhaps you need to go study in Argentina for a while, your reading comprehension skills are abysmal.
"Think about how stupid the average person is. Now, realise that half of them are dumber than that." - George Carlin
I understood what you meant perfectly. You claim that Chile should learn from the "Socialist Latin America." Except if that were to happen, the lesson on "how to provide public and free healthcare and education" might come with an addendum or two attached, like "how to forcibly freeze consumer product prices causing supermarkets to run out of stock and be left on the brink of bankruptcty" or "how to lie to the international community about your macroeconomic indicators although they don't believe a word you say anymore" or "how to be forced to find creative ways to keep your butt clean because the country has run out of toilet paper." And so on and so forth.
Oh, and here's another one: "How to keep a whole neighborhood in your nation's capital city deprived of electricity for several weeks." That actually happened in Buenos Aires in November/December 2013, remember?
Wow, even worse reading skills than I thought. ** I ** did not make the original post.
"Think about how stupid the average person is. Now, realise that half of them are dumber than that." - George Carlin
Wait....what?
Allende was a democratic elected president, you moron.
So was Hitler.
Not in Poland or France he wasn't. If he had stayed in Germany, no one would have cared.
http://www.geonet.org.nz/tsunami/
Small, but perfectly formed.
Don't forget that they are one of the rare SA countries were corruption doesn't mingly with businness, the Chilean corruption level is on par with the USA. Which means that the profits from these mines (and all other economic sectors) flow in the ecenomy (constructors, deliveries, hotels, etc.) instead of ending on some Swiss bank account.
Hitler was never president. He lost the presidential elections of 1932 by a large margin to von Hindenburg. After von Hindeburg died (in 1934), Hitler abolished the presidency, and made himself head of state.
No, he wasn't elected. He lost to von Hindenburg in the presidential elections, who later appointed him as chancellor. Meanwhile, the Reichstag switched to a largely Nazi composition due to success in elections, and passed a law (the Enabling Act) that gave Hitler the ability to pass laws without the Reichstag's approval. When von Hindenburg died, Hitler used the Enabling Act to merge von Hindenburg's former office with his own.
The only way you can claim Hitler was "elected" is by indirectly having his cronies get elected.
Just had another one, at least same size as the one yesterday