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A 131 foot tsunami???????????? That's friggin HUGE!!!!!!!!!
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JawZ wrote:A 131 foot tsunami???????????? That's friggin HUGE!!!!!!!!!
that's HUGE!!! I heard CNN say they would expect a 16+ foot wave to come ashore at Hawaii around 4:19 ET today!!! I'll be watching the news to see it and the local webcams!!! I'm sure a wave that big will cover a few statues that I took pictures at a few years ago..so easy to imagin how big they will be.

This is obviously again something serious in a chain of earthquakes not normally happening...very very serious!!! :eek: :eek:
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Sava700 wrote:that's HUGE!!! I heard CNN say they would expect a 16+ foot wave to come ashore at Hawaii around 4:19 ET today!!! I'll be watching the news to see it and the local webcams!!! I'm sure a wave that big will cover a few statues that I took pictures at a few years ago..so easy to imagin how big they will be.

This is obviously again something serious in a chain of earthquakes not normally happening...very very serious!!! :eek: :eek:
And it's not really the height but the sheer amount of water that comes in. Trillions of gallons of water displaced all at once. I'm not sure if this classifies as a mega tsunami or not...need to research.
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JawZ wrote:And it's not really the height but the sheer amount of water that comes in. Trillions of gallons of water displaced all at once. I'm not sure if this classifies as a mega tsunami or not...need to research.
Yep.. one thing is for sure, these earthquakes are coming more and more freq and more powerful!! They are stating that this 8.8 is 500x more powerful than the 7.0 that hit Haiti!!! Are we on the verge of a mega earth changing cycle of events???? :eek: :eek: :eek:
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God help all those people affected... :(
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http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/

http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/messages/h ... 154811.txt
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TSUNAMI MESSAGE NUMBER 11
NWS PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER EWA BEACH HI
549 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
MAGNITUDE - 8.4 RICHTER (MS)

MEASUREMENTS OR REPORTS OF TSUNAMI WAVE ACTIVITY

GAUGE LOCATION LAT LON TIME AMPL PER
------------------- ----- ------ ----- --------------- -----
QUEPOS CR 0.0N 9.4E 1416Z 0.24M / 0.8FT 52MIN
BALTRA GALAPAGS EC 0.4S 90.3W 1452Z 0.35M / 1.2FT 14MIN
DART MARQUESAS 5140 8.5S 125.0W 1519Z 0.28M / 0.9FT 48MIN
EASTER CL 27.2S 109.5W 1205Z 0.35M / 1.1FT 52MIN
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
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.
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Very serious!!! Obviously proof that more is happening in higher frequencies and being larger could be something we need to look at for the future. 2012? :confused:

If you look at this monitor/map you will see the amount of quakes happening which are rather high and very powerful only within the last 2 weeks!!!!!!!

http://www.iris.edu/seismon/
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It was a huge shift in thinking when It was realized that much of natural history is one cataclysim after the next. Can you imagine the damage if Etna exploded the way Santorini did? The Sahara desert was a slow event but the people living there were just as devistated.
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So it is no longer swine flu but earthquakes?.....I can't wait until 2013.
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jeremyboycool wrote:So it is no longer swine flu but earthquakes?.....I can't wait until 2013.
Thread Topic =
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Sava700 wrote:Thread Topic =
I don't care, Sava. Just report me if you think my post is out of line.
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Shinobi wrote:CBS Live in Hawaii

http://wwitv.com/tv_channels/b5850.htm
Yea CNN is covering it pretty good from two of their stations.
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Person Finder: Chile Earthquake (by Google)

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see?
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9mmprincess wrote:see?
I sure do... can't ignore the obvious :)
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Sava700 wrote:They are stating that this 8.8 is 500x more powerful than the 7.0 that hit Haiti!!! Are we on the verge of a mega earth changing cycle of events???? :eek: :eek: :eek:
It released 500x more energy.

If it were 500x more powerful it would have been a 3500 magnitude quake and earth would be gone. lol


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I believe mega tsumanis are either 31+ or 61+ ft.

Was it just one wave from the quake or like a real full fledged tsunami?
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9mmprincess wrote:see?
I see people paying more attention to earthquakes because they got bored of swine flu.
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YARDofSTUF wrote:It released 500x more energy.

If it were 500x more powerful it would have been a 3500 magnitude quake and earth would be gone. lol
Your correct.. I kept going with what CNN said instead of rewording it...still very "powerful" to say the least.
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jeremyboycool wrote:.....I can't wait until 2013.
Same here.

Never forget the horrors of Y2K!
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Sava700 wrote:not if.... but WHEN!! :eek: :eek:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/03/ ... ?tag=stack
From your article...
When asked if there is more seismic activity recently, McNutt said, "Well, yes. I think we do sense that there is a lot happening right now. I mean, I think the people at the USGS just wish we'd sort of have a break right now, with a major earthquake in January and now one in February.

"We do know that earthquakes are not completely randomly distributed in space as well as time. And this does seem to be a sort of active period. But if you look at it through the lens of geologic time, it does average out."

The Earth's plates are in constant motion, said Dr. McNutt, so seismic shifts of this magnitude are expected to happen on an irregular basis.
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jeremyboycool wrote:From your article...
I know what it says.... I'm just posting it and making a comment. You don't have to be such a wiseass troll.
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Sava700 wrote:I know what it says.... I'm just posting it and making a comment. You don't have to be such a wiseass troll.

"You don't have to be such a wiseass troll."

I am not the troll here, Sava. You are the one who has lower to name calling.

Sorry, Sava, but I am not acting out of line here and I am not going to stop posting simply because you have a hard time dealing with someone who has a different opinion then you.
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jeremyboycool wrote:"You don't have to be such a wiseass troll."

I am not the troll here, Sava. You are the one who has lower to name calling.

Sorry, Sava, but I am not acting out of line here and I am not going to stop posting simply because you have a hard time dealing with someone who has a different opinion then you.
Please don't derail the thread..thanks.
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Sava700 wrote:Please don't derail the thread..thanks.
Curious, how is he derailing the thread by quoting your post?

(not sure if you're referring to his first post or second)
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Sava700 wrote:Please don't derail the thread..thanks.
Whatever I do what I please. :p
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Humboldt wrote:Curious, how is he derailing the thread by quoting your post?

(not sure if you're referring to his first post or second)
It is all very simple, I post completely relevant information to the thread, but yet it disagrees with Sava's expressed POV, therefor I must be a troll and derailing the thread.
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jeremyboycool wrote:Whatever I do what I please. :p
Needs a comma :p
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Humboldt wrote:Needs a comma :p
Needs a period. ;)
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6.4 in Taiwan
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Humboldt wrote:Curious, how is he derailing the thread by quoting your post?

(not sure if you're referring to his first post or second)

I'm just tryin to stay on Topic Humboldt :)


come on guys.... lets just talk about Earthquakes ok! :)

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/03/ ... sHeadlines

And yet another!! :eek:
Strong Quake Hits Taiwan; Dozens Injured
6.4-Magnitude Temblor Rocks Southern Taiwan, Communications and Rail System Disrupted
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And yes... ANOTHER!!! :eek: :eek:

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/0 ... tml?hpt=T2
A strong earthquake with magnitude 6.5 struck Friday night in the ocean southwest of Sumatra in Indonesia, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

The quake, which occurred shortly after 11 p.m., was centered about 100 miles (165 kilometers) west of Bengkulu in Sumatra, and 215 miles (345 kilometers) south of Padang, Sumatra, the USGS said.
Something odd is happening... :p opcorn:
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The more earthquakes the better. The longer the plates remain still, the more pressure is built up until something gives and a big one hits. That's why seismologists are so concerned about the San Andreas strip joint..... wait.......fault.
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Sarahnn wrote:The more earthquakes the better. The longer the plates remain still, the more pressure is built up until something gives and a big one hits. That's why seismologists are so concerned about the San Andreas strip joint..... wait.......fault.
Well many seismologists are also saying the more that happen the more pressure put on the larger plates such as the ones at San Andreas that could cause the big one to be more powerful and more likely in the near future or within the next 10years! :eek:
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Sava700 wrote:
Something odd is happening... :p opcorn:
Makes one wonder doesn't it.
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Started another thread to avoid derailing this one :)
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the earthquake in Chile

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scientists said that the monsterous earthquake that hit Chile literally changed the rotatation of the earth, it shortened the Earth day and more importantly changed the earths axis. WOW!!!
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Dan, what do the expert say about that Chile earthquake shortening our earth days and changing the earths axis ?
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