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Severe Earthquake in Chile - Tsunamis possible.

Postby Rho » Sat Feb 27, 2010 5:54 am

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/lt_chile_earthquake

Dang.. There could even be a tsunami in HAWAII.
Doesn't sound like too much damage happened, so that's good.
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Re: Severe Earthquake in Chile - Tsunamis possible.

Postby TheLQ » Sat Feb 27, 2010 10:25 pm

I heard that it is going to hit the Philippines as well, along with almost every country in the pacific rim. My mom's worried because she's from there and thats her people that is going to be suffering.
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Postby matsumo itsu » Sat Feb 27, 2010 10:38 pm

West coast of U.S. Hawii, New Zealand where else this thing gonna hit?

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Postby Rho » Sun Feb 28, 2010 6:47 am

West coast of USA and Canada apparently is not a major threat, but still possible.


Over 200 people are now dead.. Haiti, then Chile.. ouch. And there was one off the coast of Japan about a day before the Chile one.
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Postby Overcaffeinated Sloth » Sun Feb 28, 2010 2:37 pm

Yup. ONOES the apocalypse. :w/e:

Seriously, the Chilean fault has been one of the most active in recent history. It holds the record for the highest-recorded Richter scale quake. People are going to try to tie this in with global warming.

Or my favorite, a GIANT WORM MONSTER will spawn from the northeast coast of Brazil and DEVOUR US ALL.

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Postby matsumo itsu » Sun Feb 28, 2010 9:13 pm

Nah people will say the FSM is mad at the world and is going to try to over take the world.

(FSM= Flying Spaghetti monster) or it may even be the IPU(Invisible Pink Unicorn) I guarantee they'll be the first blamed, I personally blame the FSM for the quake.

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Postby TheLQ » Sun Feb 28, 2010 11:55 pm

AngelBolt wrote:Or my favorite, a GIANT WORM MONSTER will spawn from the northeast coast of Brazil and DEVOUR US ALL.


kewong pizayu wrote:Nah people will say the FSM is mad at the world and is going to try to over take the world.

(FSM= Flying Spaghetti monster) or it may even be the IPU(Invisible Pink Unicorn) I guarantee they'll be the first blamed, I personally blame the FSM for the quake.


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Postby MY85 » Tue Mar 02, 2010 7:54 pm

http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/ ... 2010-03-02

The 8.8-magnitude earthquake that jolted Chile on Saturday was felt as far away as São Paulo. But NASA scientists are proposing that its repercussions are truly global in a geophysical sense: it likely shifted the Earth's axis by about eight centimeters.

Such a shift would have the effect of shaking as much as 1.26 microseconds off of the Earth's daily rotation, noted NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientist Richard Gross in an agency release.

Those microseconds (each one millionth of a second) might not sound like a lot, and they probably will not change your sleep patterns or birthday, but they do accumulate. And as such a change will be permanent, over the decades and eons, it will eventually amount to a trickle of "lost" time. (If the scientists' early estimates are on target, this quake's impact, however, will take about 130,500 years to shear off a full minute.)

But with such a fine scale (microseconds and centimeters) working on such a big mass (Earth), how can scientists calculate these details? Gross spoke with Scientific American in January 2005 to explain the concept following the then-recent undersea earthquake that caused the Indian Ocean tsunami.

Put simply, "It's what we call the ice-skater effect," David Kerridge, head of Earth hazards and systems at the British Geological Survey in Edinburgh, told Bloomberg News. "When she's going around in a circle, and she pulls her arms in, she gets faster and faster. It's the same idea with the Earth going around if you change the distribution of mass, the rotation rate changes."

This shift is hardly a one-time occurrence, however. "Any worldly event that involves the movement of mass affects the Earth's rotation," said Benjamin Fong Chao of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., in 2005, CNN reported.

If all of this chnge was from a magnitude 8.8 quake, could a bigger event shift the planet's rotation even more? Yes, the NASA scientists reported. A larger event, however, doesn't automatically translate into a bigger effect. The 9.1-magnitude Sumatra earthquake in 2004 is one such example. It was closer to the equator and occurred on a fault that has a shallower angle into the earth's crust, both of which contributed to it having less of an impact on the Earth's axis despite its greater immediate magnitude. That the Chile fault runs at a steep angle and is located mid-hemisphere means that movement there throws more weight around as the world turns.

But, as Gross noted in his Scientific American interview, the massive shifts of the Earth's plates have far less of an influence of the axis than even the breeze. "Changes in winds have by far the greatest effect on the length of the day: their effect is actually about 300 times larger."
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Postby Rho » Sat Mar 06, 2010 7:06 am

I'm hearing stuff saying that it's predicted (somehow) that the next big one will be in the Northwest of the USA. That means basically Washington, Oregon, etc.
And that could probably trigger Mount St. Helens to erupt if it happened.. Not to mention the chance of tsunamis. That could potentially be a pretty huge disaster. Yikes.


Also, I've heard stuff about some idiots saying there's some evil person that's figured out how to create big earthquakes.. Yeah, because they'd hit Haiti and Chile and not do something big like have a 9.5 hit Washington DC or something. Makes total sense.
And if it was XANA, they'd be happening in France, duh.
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Postby Overcaffeinated Sloth » Sat Mar 06, 2010 5:21 pm

There's no way to predict and earthquake... most of the time the only way scientists know about them is by triangulating the aftershocks.

*pushes up glasses*

And... Spaghetti-wrapped unicorn chased by a worm... I really want to draw that now.

*starts playing It's the end of the world*

No! Better yet!

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Postby Rho » Sat Mar 06, 2010 7:15 pm

They seem to be able to in Japan. I've seen videos of an Emergency Alert System-esque warning for Earthquakes on Youtube.

They're saying it's likely an earthquake could happen on a fault off the coast of Oregon and Washington.
..Imagine if that were to have happened during the Vancouver Olympics. (Vancouver would be a hard-hit area if it were to happen)
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