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Saturday, February 27, 2010

News Massive Earthquake Strikes Chile

Posted by on Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 5:16 AM

Far more powerful than the recent earthquake in Haiti:

A massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck Chile early Saturday, shaking the capital of Santiago for 90 seconds and sending tsunami warnings from Chile to Ecuador.

Chile’s TVN cable news channel was reporting 78 deaths, with the toll expected to rise. ...

The epicenter was some 70 miles from Concepcion, Chile’s second-largest city, where more than 200,000 people live.

 

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NumberOne 1
Terrible. Hopefully their infrastructure provided some better support than what was in Haiti. According to a friend in Hawaii, tsunami waves are expected to reach Hilo at anywhere from 16-20 feet high today.
Posted by NumberOne on February 27, 2010 at 7:01 AM
DavidC 2
Great - Fresh disaster porn. We can now go back to ignoring Haiti, Darfur etc.
Posted by DavidC http://members.shaw.ca/karenanddavid/ on February 27, 2010 at 7:02 AM
Violet_DaGrinder 3
Not a lot of infrastructure can handle 8.8 for 90 seconds. That's awful.
Posted by Violet_DaGrinder http://www.imeem.com/jukeboxmusic51/music/y1malqpG/prince-the-new-power-generation-featuring-eric-leeds-on-f/ on February 27, 2010 at 7:37 AM
raindrop 4
Today is a great day to start preparing for one HERE:
http://www.govlink.org/3days3ways/
Posted by raindrop on February 27, 2010 at 8:09 AM
NumberOne 5
How devestating for those in Chile, and now Japan was hit with a 7.0 off their coast earlier this morning.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/…

http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2010/0…

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61…

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/wo…
Posted by NumberOne on February 27, 2010 at 8:30 AM
Mahtli69 6
Tsunami advisory in Seattle today.
Posted by Mahtli69 on February 27, 2010 at 8:30 AM
7
Most importantly, has anyone checked with Pat Robertson to see what is causing all these earthquakes? I mean, besides plate tectonics?
Posted by mkyorai on February 27, 2010 at 8:37 AM
reverend dr dj riz 8
it's too early for teh gays to be responsible.. we're not at brunch for hours.
Posted by reverend dr dj riz on February 27, 2010 at 8:47 AM
9
My cell phone woke me up at 3:30 this morning with a text-message tsunami advisory, a service I signed up for on the West Coast/Alaska Tsunami Center years ago. Nice to know it works when it has to.
Posted by Toe Tag on February 27, 2010 at 9:44 AM
onion 10
8.8 is huge. huge huge huge. and for 90 seconds. that magnitude and duration would challenge even the most earthquake-proof construction.
Posted by onion on February 27, 2010 at 9:50 AM
11
This is punishment for Chile getting rid of Pinochet.
Posted by Pat Robertson on February 27, 2010 at 10:15 AM
Jason Josephes 12
So if Haiti gets a remake of We Are The World, what the hell does Chile get?
Posted by Jason Josephes http://www.myspace.com/bluemoonseattle on February 27, 2010 at 10:41 AM

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