A massive earthquake with an initial magnitude of 8.8 has struck central Chile.
The BBC Saturday, 27 February 2010
The quake struck at 0634 GMT about 91km (56 miles) north-east of the city of Concepcion and 317km south-west of the capital, Santiago.
Buildings in Santiago were reported to have shaken for between 10 and 30 seconds, with the loss of electricity and communications.
The US issued an initial tsunami warning for Chile, Peru and Ecuador.
That was later extended to Colombia, Antarctica, Panama and Costa Rica.
Japan’s meteorological agency has warned of a potential tsunami across large areas of the Pacific.
The US Geological Survey (USGS) said: “An earthquake of this size has the potential to generate a destructive tsunami that can strike coastlines near the epicentre within minutes and more distant coastlines within hours.”
Feb 27 2010
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Another horror. My heart goes out to them…. I hope the tsunami does not create itself and create further destruction.
Mish, hope you are on high ground in Japan!
for a totalitarian scientifically controlled world dystopian post modern society WILL BE hampered by earth changes.
i saw that first thing this morning.. my first thoughts were of you… are you inland a good ways? my d-i-l’s family is, so i was not worried for them.
TSUNAMI MESSAGE NUMBER 7
National Data Buoy Center is a refreshable map of buoy locations and tsunami wave data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
CNN has excellent coverage both on the Web and TV
The earthquake was am 8.8 magnitude, it was on a Saturday morning at 3:34 am local Chilean time, epicenter struck slightly offshore in an area that was (relatively speaking) not that highly populated, you can click on the thumbnails on this excellent page and see that this area is very earthquake prone and they are having a lot of aftershocks
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/ear…
the depth was 35 km (21.7 miles)
this map below shows all the world’s earthquakes in a week long time period, and it can be animated to show the little squares popping up all along the Pacific ring of fire.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/ear…
(note, California looks “bad” but we are always having piddleshit 3 ‘s and 4’s going off here daily along the coastline faults- hundreds of them. it’s a feature ; ) better little than big )
There was the big 7 magnitude one off of Japan on Feb 26th and there has been also a lot of activity east of Australia, near New Zealand and the islands of Tonga, Vanatu, http://www.ga.gov.au/bin/listQ… in addition to these new Chilean ones
World earthquake information by Country/Region (has USGS links to each country’s info )
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/ear…
Click here for latest NOAA Tsunami Watches and Warnings, Worldwide
http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/
latest tsunami warning for Hawaii, as of 8:30 am Pacific Standard Time USA, issuedd 5:49 am Hawaiian Standard Time, click here
http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/m…
estimated arrival time of tsunami wave in Hawaii is 11:19 am HST Sat feb 27, 2010