Magnitude 8.8 Offshore Maule, Chile

reply to post by kapodistrias


9:15 tonight in Hawaii

PANAMA PUERTO PINA 7.4N 78.1W 1331Z 27 FEB
PUNTA MALA 7.5N 79.9W 1334Z 27 FEB
PUNTA BURICA 8.0N 82.8W 1340Z 27 FEB
BALBOA HTS. 9.0N 79.6W 1457Z 27 FEB
COSTA RICA CABO MATAPALO 8.4N 83.3W 1344Z 27 FEB
PUERTO QUEPOS 9.4N 84.2W 1417Z 27 FEB
CABO SAN ELENA 10.9N 86.0W 1452Z 27 FEB
NICARAGUA SAN JUAN DL SUR 11.2N 85.9W 1452Z 27 FEB
PUERTO SANDINO 12.2N 86.8W 1512Z 27 FEB
CORINTO 12.5N 87.2W 1520Z 27 FEB
PITCAIRN PITCAIRN IS. 25.1S 130.1W 1455Z 27 FEB
HONDURAS AMAPALA 13.2N 87.6W 1520Z 27 FEB
EL SALVADOR ACAJUTLA 13.6N 89.8W 1531Z 27 FEB
GUATEMALA SIPICATE 13.9N 91.2W 1539Z 27 FEB
FR. POLYNESIA RIKITEA 23.1S 135.0W 1542Z 27 FEB
HIVA OA 10.0S 139.0W 1723Z 27 FEB
PAPEETE 17.5S 149.6W 1748Z 27 FEB
MEXICO PUERTO MADERO 14.8N 92.5W 1552Z 27 FEB
ACAPULCO 16.9N 99.9W 1615Z 27 FEB
MANZANILLO 19.1N 104.3W 1709Z 27 FEB
SOCORRO 18.8N 111.0W 1719Z 27 FEB
CABO SAN LUCAS 22.8N 110.0W 1749Z 27 FEB
MAZATLAN 23.2N 106.4W 1753Z 27 FEB
PUNTA ABREOJOS 26.7N 113.6W 1856Z 27 FEB
ENSENADA 31.8N 116.8W 2016Z 27 FEB
COOK ISLANDS RAROTONGA 21.2S 159.8W 1814Z 27 FEB
PENRYN IS. 8.9S 157.8W 1925Z 27 FEB
PUKAPUKA IS. 10.8S 165.9W 1950Z 27 FEB
KIRIBATI FLINT IS. 11.4S 151.8W 1836Z 27 FEB
MALDEN IS. 3.9S 154.9W 1934Z 27 FEB
CHRISTMAS IS. 2.0N 157.5W 2028Z 27 FEB
KANTON IS. 2.8S 171.7W 2112Z 27 FEB
TARAWA IS. 1.5N 173.0E 2258Z 27 FEB
KERMADEC IS RAOUL IS. 29.2S 177.9W 1912Z 27 FEB
NIUE NIUE IS. 19.0S 170.0W 1918Z 27 FEB
NEW ZEALAND EAST CAPE 37.7S 178.5E 1918Z 27 FEB
GISBORNE 38.7S 178.0E 1922Z 27 FEB
DUNEDIN 45.9S 170.5E 1952Z 27 FEB
NAPIER 39.5S 176.9E 1954Z 27 FEB
WELLINGTON 41.3S 174.8E 1955Z 27 FEB
MILFORD SOUND 44.6S 167.9E 2005Z 27 FEB
NORTH CAPE 34.4S 173.3E 2010Z 27 FEB
BLUFF 46.6S 168.3E 2030Z 27 FEB
LYTTELTON 43.6S 172.7E 2040Z 27 FEB
AUCKLAND(E) 36.7S 175.0E 2056Z 27 FEB
NELSON 41.3S 173.3E 2127Z 27 FEB
WESTPORT 41.8S 171.6E 2129Z 27 FEB
AUCKLAND(W) 37.1S 174.2E 2140Z 27 FEB
NEW PLYMOUTH 39.1S 174.1E 2219Z 27 FEB
TONGA NUKUALOFA 21.0S 175.2W 1940Z 27 FEB
AMERICAN SAMOA PAGO PAGO 14.3S 170.7W 1951Z 27 FEB
SAMOA APIA 13.8S 171.8W 2006Z 27 FEB
JARVIS IS. JARVIS IS. 0.4S 160.1W 2026Z 27 FEB
WALLIS-FUTUNA WALLIS IS. 13.2S 176.2W 2028Z 27 FEB
TOKELAU NUKUNONU IS. 9.2S 171.8W 2030Z 27 FEB
FIJI SUVA 18.1S 178.4E 2104Z 27 FEB
AUSTRALIA HOBART 43.3S 147.6E 2105Z 27 FEB
SYDNEY 33.9S 151.4E 2146Z 27 FEB
BRISBANE 27.2S 153.3E 2310Z 27 FEB
GLADSTONE 23.8S 151.4E 0101Z 28 FEB
CAIRNS 16.7S 145.8E 0159Z 28 FEB
MACKAY 21.1S 149.3E 0251Z 28 FEB
HAWAII HILO 19.7N 155.1W 2119Z 27 FEB
HONOLULU 21.3N 157.9W 2152Z 27 FEB
NAWILIWILI 22.0N 159.4W 2158Z 27 FEB
PALMYRA IS. PALMYRA IS. 6.3N 162.4W 2124Z 27 FEB
TUVALU FUNAFUTI IS. 7.9S 178.5E 2125Z 27 FEB
VANUATU ANATOM IS. 20.2S 169.9E 2137Z 27 FEB
ESPERITU SANTO 15.1S 167.3E 2235Z 27 FEB
HOWLAND-BAKER HOWLAND IS. 0.6N 176.6W 2154Z 27 FEB
NEW CALEDONIA NOUMEA 22.3S 166.5E 2218Z 27 FEB
JOHNSTON IS. JOHNSTON IS. 16.7N 169.5W 2245Z 27 FEB

Z stands for Zulu which at this time of year is the same as GMT

[edit on 27/2/2010 by PuterMan]

reply to post by PuterMan


Well then that's great, i really do hope the damage is as minimal as possible and that as many lives and peoples homes are saved as possible.

Thanks for that bit of info as well

CNN is reporting that the Tsunami evacuation sirens will sound in Hawaii at 6am local time, 1100 am ET.

The entire pacific basin is now on alert.

Reports are coming that people are starting to move and grocery stores are seeing a frenzy of hoarding in preparation for the worst.

This could be one hell of a day.



[edit on 27-2-2010 by [davinci]]

reply to post by bkaust


"they are the idiots that have it coming if something does come along"
gee thanks
BECUZZZZ I can be down the coast at 50 metres looking down sweetie.
Do you think I left living at 3 metres above sea level between a river and a lagoon only to go stand on a beach and watch one roll in ?
Besides , I would like to HELP if help is needed in an aftermath.

It seems to be mostly damages to houses and property so far in the nearby cities, and hopefully the death toll will stay low.

I have a near friend living in Viña del Mar near Valparaiso, and I think they should be OK? I couldn't get in contact with him this morning though - some telephone connections seems to be down.

Let's hope the coastlines of Hawaii Islands and the rest of the Pacific will be okey from any possible Tsunami!

Crazy with all these recent Earthquakes!



[edit on 27-2-2010 by Chevalerous]

reply to post by Rising Against


Absolutely 100% with you on that my friend.

Fingers crossed then!

More photos of the destruction in Chile here and here.

In that site they also say that there are three people missing in Juan Fernández island, and that the island is being looked at from a government aeroplane to get a first idea of the damages.

[edit on 27/2/2010 by ArMaP]

RESPECT to the nature and nothing else.

And I hope this isn't a "man made" earthquake.

reply to post by PuterMan


cool thanks
Just catching up now.
This thread's moving faster than my eyes can read at the moment almost!

reply to post by ilandrah


thank you , yes.
I was just quoting the original place I found out about it all,it was an earlier up date, I went to BOM following on.
I won't reply to any more of these replies sorry, don't want to distract the thread and am busy keeping up myself.

cheers

There is constant coverage on Telemundo. I'm watching it at the moment. Such a horrible mess. 3 hospitals in Chile collapsed.

Just pushing this info forward onto more a current page for those just waking up:


Tsunami estimate:

wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov...


P-wave:
neic.usgs.gov...

Originally posted by asIam
reply to post by bkaust

 

"they are the idiots that have it coming if something does come along"
gee thanks

BECUZZZZ I can be down the coast at 50 metres looking down sweetie.
Do you think I left living at 3 metres above sea level between a river and a lagoon only to go stand on a beach and watch one roll in ?

Besides , I would like to HELP if help is needed in an aftermath.

No problem. Firstly you did not specify you would be looking down from a cliff, you just said you would go down and look, and that implies that you would go down to the beach, so you can't really blame me for thinking that. If people are going to do that, instead of getting to safe ground, go toward the danger, they are idiots. I'm not going to apologise or take that back at all. It just further puts other people at risk, when the rescuers have to go out and save their asses, when they were advised not to be there in the first place.

And don't condescend me by calling me sweetie. Thanks.

[edit on 27/2/2010 by bkaust]

[edit on 27/2/2010 by bkaust]

the last time Hawaii sounded tsunami warnings was 1964 :/
luckily they have hours headstart
instead of 45 seconds

reply to post by kosmicjack

The earthquake was almost 8 hours ago, so any tsunami should be appearing in Central America by now, right?

Is there any webcams?

Apparently, 2010 is looking to be the year the earth bellowed and moaned while shaking on its axis? These earthquakes appear to be only growing in their intensity. An 8.8 is over a 1000 times larger than the 7.0 in Haiti.

The quake in Chile was 1,000 times more powerful than the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that caused widespread damage in Haiti on Jan 12, killing at least 230,000, earthquake experts reported on CNN International.

www.nytimes.com...

However, this a serious quake in itself, it is only a shell of another that struck the same area in 1960.

The largest earthquake ever recorded struck the same area as Saturday’s quake on May 22, 1960. That quake, which registered a magnitude 9.5, killed 1,655 people and left 2 million homeless. The tsunami that it caused killed people in Hawaii, Japan and the Philippines and caused damage to the West Coast of the United States.

www.nytimes.com...



Common knowledge claims these quakes are rather normal and are quite severe in the area of the world dubbed by geologists and geophysicists as the "Ring of Fire." It is one of the most seismic and volcanically active regions in the world.

The Pacific Ring of Fire (or sometimes just the Ring of fire) is an area where large numbers of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur in the basin of the Pacific Ocean. In a 40,000 km horseshoe shape, it is associated with a nearly continuous series of oceanic trenches, volcanic arcs, and volcanic belts and/or plate movements. The Ring of Fire has 452 volcanoes and is home to over 75% of the world's active and dormant volcanoes.[1] It is sometimes called the circum-Pacific belt or the circum-Pacific seismic belt.

About 90% of the world's earthquakes and 80% of the world's largest earthquakes occur along the Ring of Fire. The next most seismic region (5–6% of earthquakes and 17% of the world's largest earthquakes) is the Alpide belt, which extends from Java to Sumatra through the Himalayas, the Mediterranean, and out into the Atlantic. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is the third most prominent earthquake belt.

en.wikipedia.org...

This is shocking, considering the recent Haiti earthquake, but ones of this magnitude and higher have been going on since humans crawled out of the primordial goo. All we can do is tighten our bootstraps and help those in situations like this. My thoughts are with those in both Chile and the islands of Japan. Hopefully, there is a reprieve in all these catastrophic seismic happenings, because it is really getting to be much.

Please allow me to speculate on this topic, because it is slowly becoming an area of interest for me. Maybe, we are on the cusp of discovering a new geologic phenomenon? Maybe, this is not as routine as we would like it to be? Perhaps, it is a geologic phenomenon akin to the violent situation that took place during the separation of the once super continent Pangea, some 250 million years ago? It appears there may be an increase in the speed geologic time and movements. In other words, instead of the relative order of things moving at a snails pace as has been the norm for millions of years, there has been an uptick in speed? What is causing the uptick, your guess is as good as mine? Very strange days. I am watching these developments with concern.


[edit on 27-2-2010 by Jakes51]

First Japan and now this.... Something might be up :/ I hope everyone will be ok , ar at least the majority.

Here is some live streaming video.

www.ustream.tv...

Many people are going on with there lives as well as can be expected. Many of their buildings are earthquake proof built, whatever.

I am feeling more and more nervous and uneasy about those tsunamis. This is freaking huge news right now!!!!!!! What the hell is going on!

I'm not gonna lie. I'm scared of those tsunamis. I have friends and family in the areas where the tsunamis are gonna hit. Jeez. What do I do? pray?