Massive 8.8 Magnitude Quake Rocks Chile; Tsunami warnings was issued

[george]

Japan bracing for up to 3-meter tsunami by afternoon

Tokyo - A tsunami as high as 3 meters could hit Japan's Pacific coast Sunday following a massive, 8.8-magnitude earthquake overnight in Chile, the Japan Meteorological Agency.

The agency projected that The tsunami could reach Japanese coasts between 1 pm (0400 GMT) to 4 pm.

The agency was preparing to issue tsunami warnings, an agency official told a news conference.

-- The Nation 2010-02-28

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[george]

BNO NEWS:

The tsunami advisory has been cancelled for the California coast

[webfact]

Update

Government lifts tsunami alert in Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula – Reuters

[Igor]

There has been 212 earthquakes in the last 7 days, worldwide. Not including these ones.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/

The USGS will send you notice of earthquakes by email if you ask them to. I had to reset the parameters so they only notify me of quakes that are stronger than 5.0 - just too many quakes everyday but most are little things.

[monkfish]

[PoorSucker]

How stupid can people get?

Standing filming an oncoming Tsunami.

[Moonrakers]

How stupid can people get?

Standing filming an oncoming Tsunami.

My thoughts exactly.

[Laurih]

That video footage is actually from Thailand on 2004.

You can see the same video in this bigger one, uploaded on March 18, 2008:

Just skip to 3:33 and look, same clip

[elcent]

yes, the video is a joke, saw it a couple of times before. The last time when I saw it was yesterday when I searched for info and before it could have hit Hawai.

[webfact]

Pacific-wide tsunami warning has been canceled for all countries, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center reports

-- Agency

[bubblegum]

I wonder if thailand will give aid to Chile like the aid they recieved before.

Japan 3 mil

China 1 mil

Thailand ???

[neverdie]

They donated in kind to haiti ....perhaps they could donate mr t's money or his change.

[JetsetBkk]

The USGS will send you notice of earthquakes by email if you ask them to. I had to reset the parameters so they only notify me of quakes that are stronger than 5.0 - just too many quakes everyday but most are little things.

Same here - except I upped my minimum to 6.5.