The Earthquake Thread

[Dr Lee]

They added that just after i posted....

Sounded like the sirens are going off again...

 

[Kelly]

They've been going off all day long because some are not working 100% of the time....so they have been going off about every 10 minutes all day.

 

[enterthemadness]

Wipe it out...????


It's not going to wipe it out.

Oh okay.

But still...not good.

 

[[A]]

Nothing's happening! *yawn*

 

[Dr Lee]

Sky are running Fox News atm.... and they're saying that there are 3 feet waves hitting one of the Islands atm, thought i didn't hear which one was mentioned

 

[Red Cherry Lips]

The tsunami's here.

Live coverage here http://www.kitv.com/video/22691778/index.html

 

[Watson]

^Stay safe RCH!

 

[The Battousai]

What the hell is going on with Earth's tectonic plates?

This is similar to the plate boundary bordering Chile:

 

[Red Cherry Lips]

^Stay safe RCH!

*hugs* All good Dr. W! The tides are still receding and surging back and forth but not at a destructive or dramatic rate by any means. Still wouldn't go near the water just yet though. The main thing everyone had time to get to higher ground or stay at home if they don't live close to the shores. I live in an area away from the beaches so I didn't need to evacuate.

 

[Red Cherry Lips]

LOL! Some guy is out paddle boarding. I'm sure he'll be okay at this point but it's better to play it safe until the official word is out.

 

[Nightmare]

Im in california, should I be worried? I hope the people in hawaii dont get hit too hard

 

[Ghostvirus]

One good thing about the Asia Tsunami. It made everyone aware of the warning signs of a Tsunami.

 

[Paroxysm]

Hawaii Escapes Major Tsunami
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100...1624043844744.html?mod=WSJ-hpp-LEFTTopStories

 

[The Battousai]

Im in california, should I be worried? I hope the people in hawaii dont get hit too hard

Look at the energy flow image I posted

 

[Kelly]

The only countries that still have Tsunami warnings posted are China and Russia....all other countries including the US have canceled their warnings.

 

[El_Citrus]

People have said that earthquake activity hasn't really been increasing. Is that in relation to the number AND size of the quakes? I can't seem to remember anytime recently that two huge, devastating earthquakes like these have hit around the same time frame. Then again, this could be one of those one in a thousand scenarios.

 

[Kelly]

Its more where they hit....for instance....in Haiti, it was much smaller than the Chile earthquake, but it wasn't as deep as the Chile earthquake, and the epicenter was right under, not only the most populated city in Haiti, but where the government was stationed.

The Chile earthquake was large, very large, but much deeper into the earth, and not right under a populated area.

I think more than anything else it is simply a timing thing, nothing that can be pinpointed as an increase in earthquakes.

BUT, I will say that a 4.?? earthquake hit Oklahoma today, now that is strange.

 

[Dr. Evil]

Its more where they hit....for instance....in Haiti, it was much smaller than the Chile earthquake, but it wasn't as deep as the Chile earthquake, and the epicenter was right under, not only the most populated city in Haiti, but where the government was stationed.

The Chile earthquake was large, very large, but much deeper into the earth, and not right under a populated area.

I think more than anything else it is simply a timing thing, nothing that can be pinpointed as an increase in earthquakes.

BUT, I will say that a 4.?? earthquake hit Oklahoma today, now that is strange.

There have been minor quakes up here in the Dallas area the last few years. Nothing that causes major damage or anything though.

 

[El_Citrus]

Yeah, it seems to be just a really rare occurence of devastating earthquakes virtually back to back. Thankfully Chile was more prepared, although I wonder if there will be another telethon for support.

 

[Dr. Evil]

Yeah, it seems to be just a really rare occurence of devastating earthquakes virtually back to back. Thankfully Chile was more prepared, although I wonder if there will be another telethon for support.

Probably.

 

[El_Citrus]

I'm curious as to how much it will turn out, since it'll seem like a bit much for people who donated last time to donate again during tough economic times.

 

[Kelly]

There have been minor quakes up here in the Dallas area the last few years. Nothing that causes major damage or anything though.

Yeah, they are on the New Madrid fault line, it has had increasing activity over the past decade.

 

[Dr. Evil]

I'm curious as to how much it will turn out, since it'll seem like a bit much for people who donated last time to donate again during tough economic times.

Well, there are reports that as of right now, Chile doesn't need the help, but the United States has said that they will help out when asked.

 

[Aesop Rocks]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20100302/sc_space/chileearthquakemayhaveshorteneddaysonearth

The massive 8.8 earthquake that struck Chile may have changed the entire Earth's rotation and shortened the length of days on our planet, a NASA scientist said Monday.
The quake, the seventh strongest earthquake in recorded history, hit Chile Saturday and should have shortened the length of an Earth day by 1.26 milliseconds, according to research scientist Richard Gross at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
"Perhaps more impressive is how much the quake shifted Earth's axis," NASA officials said in a Monday update.

The computer model used by Gross and his colleagues to determine the effects of the Chile earthquake effect also found that it should have moved Earth's figure axis by about 3 inches (8 cm or 27 milliarcseconds).
The Earth's figure axis is not the same as its north-south axis, which it spins around once every day at a speed of about 1,000 mph (1,604 kph).
The figure axis is the axis around which the Earth's mass is balanced. It is offset from the Earth's north-south axis by about 33 feet (10 meters).

Strong earthquakes have altered Earth's days and its axis in the past. The 9.1 Sumatran earthquake in 2004, which set off a deadly tsunami, should have shortened Earth's days by 6.8 microseconds and shifted its axis by about 2.76 inches (7 cm, or 2.32 milliarcseconds).
One Earth day is about 24 hours long. Over the course of a year, the length of a day normally changes gradually by one millisecond. It increases in the winter, when the Earth rotates more slowly, and decreases in the summer, Gross has said in the past.

The Chile earthquake was much smaller than the Sumatran temblor, but its effects on the Earth are larger because of its location. Its epicenter was located in the Earth's mid-latitudes rather than near the equator like the Sumatran event.
The fault responsible for the 2010 Chile quake also slices through Earth at a steeper angle than the Sumatran quake's fault, NASA scientists said.
"This makes the Chile fault more effective in moving Earth's mass vertically and hence more effective in shifting Earth's figure axis," NASA officials said.
Gross said his findings are based on early data available on the Chile earthquake. As more information about its characteristics are revealed, his prediction of its effects will likely change.

The Chile earthquake has killed more than 700 people and caused widespread devastation in the South American country.
Several major telescopes in Chile's Atacama Desert have escaped damage, according to the European Southern Observatory managing them.
A salt-measuring NASA satellite instrument destined to be installed on an Argentinean satellite was also undamaged in the earthquake, JPL officials said.
The Aquarius instrument was in the city of Bariloche, Argentina, where it is being installed in the Satelite de Aplicaciones Cientificas (SAC-D) satellite. The satellite integration facility is about 365 miles (588 km) from the Chile quake's epicenter.
The Aquarius instrument is designed to provide monthly global maps of the ocean's salt concentration in order to track current circulation and its role in climate change.

 

[Bim]

Wow