Massive 8.8 Magnitude Quake Rocks Chile; Tsunami warnings was issued

[george]

Widespread tsunami warning still in efect. Gauge in Easter Island record a tidal wave, according to the PTWC

CNN: ADVISORY for California, Alaskan coast lines, damage POSSIBLE

[Moonrakers]

Projected path and intensity of the Tsunami.

http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/chile/chileem.jpg

That doesn't seem right. Only up to 100 cm?

[george]

Update:

Tsunami sirens will sound in Hawaii at 6:00 a.m., 'all shores at risk no matter which direction they face,' says U.S. agency - Reuters

Santiago subway not working this morning according to CNN en Español - CNN

U.S. State Dept number for Americans seeking info about friends/relatives in Chile: 1-888-407-4747

Santiago Airport will be closed for the next 24 hours, Airport building under repairs -- CNN

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Big bridge down near Concepcion, Chile:

[george]

BNO NEWS:

Tsunami explanied... if u see 1 or 2 feet recorded via the bulletin... in the coast is very different. Explains why the 10 cm tsunamis are not a joke..

http://www.nea.gov.sg/cms/mss/tsunami/tsunami2.jpg

[huma79]

According to http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/messages/hawa...2.27.125041.txt if there is a tsunami, we'll know in Bangkok on Sunday morning at about 4:19am if it hits Hawaii.

[churchill]

Philippines issues tsunami alert

"MANILA, Philippines - The government warned coastal communities on the eastern side of the archipelago Saturday to prepare for possible evacuation after a powerful earthquake in Chile triggered a tsunami.

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said that the 8.8-magnitude earthquake that struck in the Pacific Ocean near the coast of Chile early Saturday could generate a destructive tsunami that could hit coastlines on the western Pacific."

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/02/27/10...s-tsunami-alert

[Moonrakers]

BNO NEWS:

Tsunami explanied... if u see 1 or 2 feet recorded via the bulletin... in the coast is very different. Explains why the 10 cm tsunamis are not a joke..

http://www.nea.gov.sg/cms/mss/tsunami/tsunami2.jpg

Ahh.

That makes sense, far from good then.

[webfact]

BULLETIN

TSUNAMI MESSAGE NUMBER 8

NWS PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER EWA BEACH HI

250 AM HST SAT FEB 27 2010

TO - CIVIL DEFENSE IN THE STATE OF HAWAII

SUBJECT - TSUNAMI WARNING SUPPLEMENT

A TSUNAMI WARNING CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR THE STATE OF HAWAII.

AN EARTHQUAKE HAS OCCURRED WITH THESE PRELIMINARY PARAMETERS

ORIGIN TIME - 0834 PM HST 26 FEB 2010

COORDINATES - 36.1 SOUTH 72.6 WEST

LOCATION - NEAR COAST OF CENTRAL CHILE

MAGNITUDE - 8.8 MOMENT

MEASUREMENTS OR REPORTS OF TSUNAMI WAVE ACTIVITY

GAUGE LOCATION LAT LON TIME AMPL PER

------------------- ----- ------ ----- --------------- -----

EASTER CL 27.2S 109.5W 1160Z 0.44M / 1.4FT 08MIN

ANCUD CL 41.9S 73.8W 0838Z 0.62M / 2.0FT 84MIN

CALLAO LA-PUNTA PE 12.1S 77.2W 1029Z 0.36M / 1.2FT 30MIN

ARICA CL 18.5S 70.3W 1008Z 0.94M / 3.1FT 42MIN

IQUIQUE CL 20.2S 70.1W 0907Z 0.28M / 0.9FT 68MIN

ANTOFAGASTA CL 23.2S 70.4W 0941Z 0.49M / 1.6FT 52MIN

DART LIMA 32412 18.0S 86.4W 0941Z 0.24M / 0.8FT 36MIN

CALDERA CL 27.1S 70.8W 0843Z 0.45M / 1.5FT 20MIN

TALCAHUANO CL 36.7S 73.4W 0653Z 2.34M / 7.7FT 88MIN

COQUIMBO CL 30.0S 71.3W 0852Z 1.32M / 4.3FT 30MIN

CORRAL CL 39.9S 73.4W 0739Z 0.90M / 2.9FT 16MIN

SAN FELIX CL 26.3S 80.1W 0815Z 0.53M / 1.7FT 08MIN

VALPARAISO CL 33.0S 71.6W 0708Z 1.29M / 4.2FT 20MIN

LAT - LATITUDE (N-NORTH, S-SOUTH)

LON - LONGITUDE (E-EAST, W-WEST)

TIME - TIME OF THE MEASUREMENT (Z IS UTC IS GREENWICH TIME)

AMPL - TSUNAMI AMPLITUDE MEASURED RELATIVE TO NORMAL SEA LEVEL.

IT IS ...NOT... CREST-TO-TROUGH WAVE HEIGHT.

VALUES ARE GIVEN IN BOTH METERS(M) AND FEET(FT).

PER - PERIOD OF TIME IN MINUTES(MIN) FROM ONE WAVE TO THE NEXT.

EVALUATION

A TSUNAMI HAS BEEN GENERATED THAT COULD CAUSE DAMAGE ALONG

COASTLINES OF ALL ISLANDS IN THE STATE OF HAWAII. URGENT ACTION

SHOULD BE TAKEN TO PROTECT LIVES AND PROPERTY.

A TSUNAMI IS A SERIES OF LONG OCEAN WAVES. EACH INDIVIDUAL WAVE

CREST CAN LAST 5 TO 15 MINUTES OR MORE AND EXTENSIVELY FLOOD

COASTAL AREAS. THE DANGER CAN CONTINUE FOR MANY HOURS AFTER THE

INITIAL WAVE AS SUBSEQUENT WAVES ARRIVE. TSUNAMI WAVE HEIGHTS

CANNOT BE PREDICTED AND THE FIRST WAVE MAY NOT BE THE LARGEST.

TSUNAMI WAVES EFFICIENTLY WRAP AROUND ISLANDS. ALL SHORES ARE AT

RISK NO MATTER WHICH DIRECTION THEY FACE. THE TROUGH OF A TSUNAMI

WAVE MAY TEMPORARILY EXPOSE THE SEAFLOOR BUT THE AREA WILL

QUICKLY FLOOD AGAIN. EXTREMELY STRONG AND UNUSUAL NEARSHORE

CURRENTS CAN ACCOMPANY A TSUNAMI. DEBRIS PICKED UP AND CARRIED

BY A TSUNAMI AMPLIFIES ITS DESTRUCTIVE POWER. SIMULTANEOUS HIGH

TIDES OR HIGH SURF CAN SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASE THE TSUNAMI HAZARD.

THE ESTIMATED ARRIVAL TIME IN HAWAII OF THE FIRST TSUNAMI WAVE IS

1119 AM HST SAT 27 FEB 2010

MESSAGES WILL BE ISSUED HOURLY OR SOONER AS CONDITIONS WARRANT.

source:

http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/messages/hawa...5041.txt?hpt=T1

[george]

BNO NEWS:

Helicopter confirms tsunami damage in Juan Fernandes Island, Bio Bio radio reports.

At least 3 people missing in Juan Fernandez after the tsunami. Half of San Juan Bautista damaged by the tidal wave. -- BNO

Waves of 11 meters were observed in Concepcion, according to Bio Bio radio - BNO

U.S. State Dept to BNO News: All [u.S.] embassy personnel, about 118, are accounted for. U.S. State Dept to BNO News: A warning message has been sent to any Americans on the ground in Chile. No information on American casualties. At the present the airport is closed.

[george]

Vehicles that were driving along a highway that collapsed during the earthquake near Santiago, overturned

[meelousee]

8.8 is a very dangerous quake. There will be much damage, it was early in the Am most folks were sleeping. 3am

A 9ft wave is real nasty looks like it is traveling pretty fast...

Heading from Santiago

Latitude: 33° 26' South

Longitude: 70° 40' West

Initial heading: 289.5° West-northwestWest-northwest

Final heading: 302.4° West-northwestWest-northwest

Honolulu

Latitude: 21° 19' North

Longitude: 157° 50' West

Aprox 8 hours travel time

Distance is 11,038 kilometers or 6859 miles or 5960 nautical miles

Estimated speed 745 miles per hour

1198 Kmph

38843 Knots

Speed is plus or minus 100mph

Edited February 27, 2010 by meelousee

[george]

A resident sits on the debris of a collapsed house in the city of Talca, Chile:

[george]

Quake knocks out electricity, water and phone service in parts of Santiago, Chile. - CNN

U.S. expands tsunami advisory to include coastal areas of Oregon, Washington, British Columbia and Alaska. -- BNO News

All UK embassy personnel in Chile accounted for. UK has not received requests for help at this time. -- BNO News

New aftershock struck Chile a few minutes ago.. very preliminary data suggests 5.8. -- BNO News

Chilean TV has now pictures of President Bachelet on board a helicopter traveling to the epicenter. -- BNO

Death toll in Chile now at 85 Chilean president said 85 deaths its preliminary from only one region. There's no new overall death toll. -- BNO / Agencies

Pacific Tsunami Warning Center tells BNO News it has recorded a 7.7 ft tsunami in Chile (highest current). Calls 40m tsunami report unlikely. -- BNO

[george]

California warns its coastal cities to prepare for possible tsunami waves after Chile quake - Reuters

[YanTree]

Something is brewing here. Haiti, Japan, Chile, record snow fall on East coast of US - mother earth is angry.

I hope to hel_l this is just randomness messing with my head and all of this just happens to be going on right now - but seems far more likely that the earth is undergoing some kind of huge changes nobody understands yet. Could be global warming related, who knows - but I think the shit is about to hit the fan.

[culicine]

CNN reporting that local police says 40 meter waves hit the Juan Fernandez island. Police helicopter on the way to confirm.

I just HOPE thats not true! a 40m wave must be absolutely destructive

we got just 6m in Phuket when the tsunami striked here

Hope it wasn't 40..I read elsewhere it was about 3 metres..

[george]

5+ aftershocks now at 25 after huge earthquake in Chile - U.S. Geological Survey

82 dead confirmed in Chile after the quake, according to the Interior minister - BNO News

[neverdie]

Some information about what happens to Tsunami's as they approach land.

http://www.bom.gov.au/tsunami/tsunami_info.shtml#land

As a tsunami leaves the deep water of the open-ocean and travels into the shallower water near the coast, it transforms. If you read the "The physics of a tsunami" section, you will know that a tsunami travels at a speed that is related to the water depth - hence, as the water depth decreases, the tsunami slows. The tsunami's energy flux, which is dependent on both its wave speed and wave height, remains nearly constant. Consequently, as the tsunami's speed diminishes, its height grows. This is called shoaling. Because of this shoaling effect, a tsunami that is unnoticeable at sea, may grow to be several metres or more in height near the coast.

The increase of the tsunami's waveheight as it enters shallow water is given by:

where h_s and h_d are waveheights in shallow and deep water and H_s and H_d are the depths of the shallow and deep water. So a tsunami with a height of 1 m in the open ocean where the water depth is 4000m would have a waveheight of 4 to 5 m in water of depth 10 m.

Just like other water waves, tsunamis begin to lose energy as they rush onshore - part of the wave energy is reflected offshore, while the shoreward-propagating wave energy is dissipated through bottom friction and turbulence. Despite these losses, tsunamis still reach the coast with tremendous amounts of energy. Depending on whether the first part of the tsunami to reach the shore is a crest or a trough, it may appear as a rapidly rising or falling tide. Local bathymetry may also cause the tsunami to appear as a series of breaking waves.

Tsunamis have great erosion potential, stripping beaches of sand that may have taken years to accumulate and undermining trees and other coastal vegetation. Capable of inundating, or flooding, hundreds of metres inland past the typical high-water level, the fast-moving water associated with the inundating tsunami can crush homes and other coastal structures. Tsunamis may reach a maximum vertical height onshore above sea level, often called a run-up height, of tens of metres.

[george]

Update:

4+ -foot tsunami waves wash Coquimbo and Valparaiso in Chile - Pacific Tsunami Warning Center

[neverdie]

Something is brewing here. Haiti, Japan, Chile, record snow fall on East coast of US - mother earth is angry.

I hope to hel_l this is just randomness messing with my head and all of this just happens to be going on right now - but seems far more likely that the earth is undergoing some kind of huge changes nobody understands yet. Could be global warming related, who knows - but I think the shit is about to hit the fan.

If its global warming related, how do you explain these Tsunamis between AD 365 and the late 1800's?

Major Historical Tsunamis

Date Place Description Estimated Deaths July 21, AD 365 Alexandria Generated by earthquake 50,000 + June 7, 1692 Port Royal, Jamaica Generated by earthquake Thousands 1707 Japan Generated by earthquake 30,000 November 1, 1755 Lisbon, Portugal Waves 6-15 m high generated by earthquake 10,000-60,000 August 8, 1868 Arica, Chile 15 m wave generated by earthquake Thousands August 26-27, 1883 Krakatoa, Indonesia Generated by eruption of volcano 36,000 June 15, 1896 Honshu, Japan 30 m wave generated by earthquake; destroyed 280 km coastline 27,122

[phuketrichard]

I live in kamala, Phuket and was here when the Tsunami hit in 2004. The roots of the trees along the beach were about 1 meter above the ground on the 27th.

The wave here rushed over 500 meters from the shore to the main road. In Koh Lak it pushed a navy boat over 800 meters inland!!

http://phuket.zenfolio.com/p97696558

[Moonrakers]

Update:

4+ -foot tsunami waves wash Coquimbo and Valparaiso in Chile - Pacific Tsunami Warning Center

That may not be that severe, although it may be a very different story when it arrives at another coast depending on the depth etc.

[neverdie]

Theres some interesting reading here about tsunamis and the their effects on polar ice caps.

It is perhaps possible to effect the balance of the earth if a significant enough tsunami was to hit the north or south pole.

http://phaseportrait.blogspot.com/2005/01/...-polar-ice.html

Edited February 27, 2010 by neverdie

[george]

Update:

HAWAII: -- Hilo Airport closing ahead of tsunami arrival in Hawaii - KHNL-TV

[Bottlerocket]

Giant wave

Reuters reported that a tsunami caused by the quake caused "serious damage" to Chile's sparsely populated Juan Fernández Islands. Citing local police, CNN reported that the islands had been hit by a 40-meter (131-foot) wave.

[george]

Update:

27th aftershock, magnitude 5.0, off shore of Chile - U.S. Geological Survey

White House: We are closely monitoring the situation, including the potential for a tsunami. Our thoughts and prayers are with the people of Chile, and we stand ready to help in this hour of need.

"Earthquakes dont kill people, buildings do" -- CNN

[neverdie]

"Earthquakes dont kill people, buildings do" -- CNN

The media do say stupid things, don't they.

Earthquakes most certainly do kill people, not all people killed in earthquakes die under buildings. Wouldnt expect anything better from CNN.

[elcent]

"Earthquakes dont kill people, buildings do" -- CNN

The media do say stupid things, don't they.

Earthquakes most certainly do kill people, not all people killed in earthquakes die under buildings. Wouldnt expect anything better from CNN.

one other major English newspaper refers even to Peru.

[neverdie]

It is perhaps possible to effect the balance of the earth if a significant enough tsunami was to hit the north or south pole.

http://phaseportrait.blogspot.com/2005/01/...-polar-ice.html

I would say not. Hilarious reading. The writer has forgotten the difference of the masses. The mass of ice is minimal compared to the mass of the earth. Therefore it should not have any effect, even if the mass is on top of the surface.

-Pekka

I read another article type thing on this some months ago & it was talking about the possiblity of a tsunami damaging ice, but i cant find it now, maybe for another time. Lots of speculation goes on with these types of things, some of it interesting though.

ps: I must point out that I personally know nothing very little about Tsunamis, just googling

Edited February 27, 2010 by neverdie

[elcent]

more than 122 dead. Fears over up to 5 m waves in the Pacific neighborhood.