Magnitude 8.8 Offshore Maule, Chile

Alaska : 3.0

hisz.rsoe.hu...

According to an Associated Press Television News cameraman, some buildings have collapsed in Santiago and there are power outages in parts of the city.[9]

My girlfiends family is from Chile and has lots of relatives there. Her aunt lives in Santiago. Her dad managed to get a hold of her aunt somehow, apparently her apartment was destroyed, but she managed to survive.

Pretty scary stuff.

Apparently, giant waves hit some areas of Chile. In some places ships and shipping containers were carried far inland. Also, according to the first pilot on the scene to fly over the San Fernandez island half of the island was destroyed and at least 50 homes were completely engulfed in water. The town center was destroyed (as in there is nothing left) as well as the cementery. The wave was in the tens of meters high and had enough force to push water up to 70 meters a hillside of the island. That part of the island has a steady sloping terrain and the water just pushed right though. The pilot reporting this knows the island very well too.

Casualty figures will likely be in the thousands when all is said and done.

[edit on 27-2-2010 by Unplugged]

5.8 at Angol just came in. This only 29 miles from Los Angeles - no not the one in the States!!!

They are still rolling in.

This is a scary amount of quakes in a day when you conside only 2 of these are less than 5.0.

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[edit on 27/2/2010 by PuterMan]

Money is more useful than all your "prayers" people, that or actually physically helping.

reply to post by PuterMan


Hasn't hit USGS yet. Do you have a link?

5.7 in Afganistan. Hmmm.

All clear issued in Hawaii.. Warning listed Bet they all feel kinda of funny after storming the stores..

I’m in Afghanistan and we just had a earth quake it shook me out of my bed and made me run for the door. Will update when I know more.

Quake in Afganistan now???!! WTF is going on?


madness

[edit on 27-2-2010 by Unplugged]

Magnitude mb 4.8
Region HINDU KUSH REGION, AFGHANISTAN
Date time 2010-02-27 at 23:21:12.9 UTC
Location 35.99 N ; 70.12 E
Depth 100 km
Distances 129 km E Baglan (pop 108,449 ; local time 03:51 2010-02-28)
69 km S Farh_ar (pop 10,480 ; local time 03:51 2010-02-28

www.emsc-csem.org...

reply to post by ExPostFacto


earthquake.usgs.gov...

And that is a 5.8 again in O'Higgins just popped off.

Originally posted by Hellas
Magnitude mb 4.8
Region HINDU KUSH REGION, AFGHANISTAN
Date time 2010-02-27 at 23:21:12.9 UTC
Location 35.99 N ; 70.12 E
Depth 100 km
Distances 129 km E Baglan (pop 108,449 ; local time 03:51 2010-02-28)
69 km S Farh_ar (pop 10,480 ; local time 03:51 2010-02-28

www.emsc-csem.org...⊂=detail&id=156588

Well according to USGS it was a 5.7, but don't worry it is in a mountainous region and very deep so no one will have been affected I would imagine.

BTW there was a 4.7 there on the 22nd, Could RSOE have got muddled up?

Yup I will go for the 69, but not km - miles. Very unlikely to have affected it.

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can someone explain how it's possible for an earthquake to occur in a localized area far away from any fault line and not have anything be felt on the actual fault line? Just curious because I don't know much about it. Wondering how an earthquake can occur in oklahoma for instance.

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No that was their first data I guess.
They just updated it to a 5.8

www.emsc-csem.org...

reply to post by rufusdrak


Oklahoma is on the New Madrid fault line; last time it jumped big was in the 19th century, early 1800s sometime.

en.wikipedia.org...

Here's another one:
5.2 2010/02/27 23:35:15 -33.867 -72.226 34.8 OFFSHORE LIBERTADOR O'HIGGINS, CHILE

Originally posted by apacheman
reply to post by rufusdrak

 

Oklahoma is on the New Madrid fault line; last time it jumped big was in the 19th century, early 1800s sometime.

en.wikipedia.org...

Oklahoma just had a 4.4 earthquake, too.

earthquake.usgs.gov...


Weird day!

I find it interesting that this earthquake is nearly the same strength as the one that struck in 1960 in the same area.