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Tsunami
That is an energy model of the power unleashed by the Chilean Earthquake this morning.
Wikipedia is all over this thing with some incredible images and documentation. I don't know how they do it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Chile_earthquake
Hawaii is due to get some form of Tsunami at about 4 EST. Easter Island already had a small one but the balance of the Pacific basin is in for some battering.
And then there is Chile. 8.8! The destruction must be horrible and we're all sorry for ourselves in our home heated by electricity from the generator. Power will be back soon I hope as we've already had a 3 minute tease.
What is happenning to our planet?
The blue image is the wave projection as calculated by NOAA
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This earthquake activity is normal and happens periodically, about every 2 to 3 centuries, according to to the news. The problem now is that more people are living in quake-prone areas.
The tsunami headed for Hawaii will be a 5 to 7-foot wave and shouldn't pose much of a problem.
The earthquake that hit Chile was 500 times stronger than the one that hit Haiti but the loss of life is far less.
Hope you get your power back soon, Hamp.
No power yet but generator power is fair. Good enough as they say. what sucks is filling gas cans. Lucky the gen lasts about 12 hours.
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Chile suffered relatively little damage compared to Haiti. They have some pretty strict construction standards, from what I've read, and the buildings which collapsed were mostly older, historic buildings that were uninhabited.
Hawai'i appears to have dodged a bullet on the tsunami. They had several small waves but nothing that did any damage.
Makes you wonder, though, if Earth is entering into an active phase in plate tectonics.
GONE FISHING
It happens every couple hundred years. Ron remembers the last time
What is interesting, yet makes sense. They say one quake can set off another and another so they can go in a chain reaction like we're seeing this year. The scary one that may come.. Vesuvius always blows soon after quakes elsewhere in Italy. There have been two quakes in Italy recently. I'd hate to see Pompeii buried again.
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This may indeed be an active phase. I thought this would happen a few months ago before the Haiti quake after checking out the seismic activity off the coast of CA. Things just seemed to be more active. My guess is there's more to come but hope not.
While the New Madrid fault stops a couple hundred miles south of here, Illinois is riddled with faults and the river that runs by my door lies on one. I've been all over the world but the only earthquake I've ever experienced was right here in Iowa. It came roaring up the river one night and scared the bejabbers out of me when the couch I was sitting on moved back and forth several times.
Funny that, because according to John McPhee's excellent book Annals of a Former World this is the "stable interior craton". I guess "stable" is relative.
GONE FISHING
About 6 years ago or so, I felt a little shake and said, what was that? Turned out there was a little temblor in central VA that measured 4.5 on the Richter scale. It came as quite a surprise.
Ron has a point. I felt the recent quake of the coast of Eureka Ca, it was at a point where 3 plates intersect and as the crow flys I'm 360 miles away from me.. My house has many wind chimes hanging from the eves outside. They were swaying and chiming away with not a lick of breeze. If one looks at the Google earth under water terrain of the coast of No Ca, it is a tortured topology.
There are some geyers to the north of me and one of the people who works there says this gyser gets active prior to a temor.
I've been in a 7.2 and can't imagine 8.8 feels like,
I saw one account to day of a guy describing the roadway flexing like a sheet of paper.
My thoughts and prayers for them in Chile.
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=40.369566,-124.624786&spn=0.443625,0.98053&t=h&z=10
"Tortured" is an understatement. That ocean bottom looks like a scene out of Dante's Inferno.
Wow! And thank you!
P.S. I wondered yesterday if we had any Partizanes on the West Coast. Are you in an area that was affected by the tsunami advisories?
GONE FISHING
Looking at the "wave" map that CNN showed, the coastlines from Chile north would be subject to a wave, although I would think it would confuse a sufer sitting, waiting for the right set of waves to ride, would think, "WTH was that one about??" That came out of know where!".
The coast is a 30 minutes drive. Ya know where the movie "Birds" was filmed? The bar is still there. Great Bloody Mary's too!
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=38.284547,-123.042755&spn=0.228527,0.490265&t=h&z=11
http://www.geog.nau.edu/courses/alew/ggr346/ft/pacific/ca/Image23.jpg
I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the manmade sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.
Hitchcock.
My niece and family lived there until last year. After the great Tsunami talk focused on Eureka and Crescent City as the most susceptible US spots to a Tsunami. The lay of the land and the fact that the fault is offshore.
Good to see you Teak
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