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End of Days 2010

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Feb 27 2010 09:00 AM

First Haiti, then intervening quakes, then Japan yesterday, now this. A massive magnitude 8.8 earthquake rocked Chile early Saturday, killing at least 122 people and triggering tsunami warnings for the entire Pacific basin. I can't imagine how the death toll doesn't rise exponentially.

metsmarathon Feb 27 2010 09:39 AM Re: End of Days 2010

jeez... 8.8 is frickin' huge. tsunami warnings for hawaii.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Feb 27 2010 09:44 AM Re: End of Days 2010

And the entire rim. The full warning, as per the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: A TSUNAMI WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR CHILE / PERU / ECUADOR / COLOMBIA / ANTARCTICA (Huh?)/ PANAMA / COSTA RICA / NICARAGUA / PITCAIRN / HONDURAS / EL SALVADOR / GUATEMALA / FR. POLYNESIA / MEXICO / COOK ISLANDS / KIRIBATI / KERMADEC IS / NIUE / NEW ZEALAND / TONGA / AMERICAN SAMOA / SAMOA / JARVIS IS. / WALLIS-FUTUNA / TOKELAU / FIJI / AUSTRALIA / HAWAII / PALMYRA IS. / TUVALU / VANUATU / HOWLAND-BAKER / NEW CALEDONIA / JOHNSTON IS. / SOLOMON IS. / NAURU / MARSHALL IS. / MIDWAY IS. / KOSRAE / PAPUA NEW GUINEA / POHNPEI / WAKE IS. / CHUUK / RUSSIA / MARCUS IS. / INDONESIA / N. MARIANAS / GUAM / YAP / BELAU / JAPAN / PHILIPPINES / CHINESE TAIPEI Santiago's leaps-and-bounds more prepared/less vulnerable for this sort of thing than Port-au-Prince, obviously-- it's up there with SF in terms of "quakeproof" engineering and architecture. But still...