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I just get an alert from my Earthquake app on the smartphone, that tells of a rather shallow (8 km deep) 7.9 quake in Chile, some 150 km north of Valparaiso.

No reports are in yet, but a Tsunami warning has been triggered.

7.9 at 8 km depth in a populated area... I just hope this won't get as ugly as it sounds.

Other sources speak of 8.3 magnitude, at 5 km depth.

A powerful earthquake has hit central Chile, causing buildings to sway in the capital Santiago.

The 7.9-magnitude tremor centred off the coast, about 153 miles (246km) north-west of the capital. Chilean officials said it measured 7.2.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-34275783

Sounds nasty.

USGS confirms 8.3 magnitude. The epicenter was off the coast, though, which may somewhat lessen the impact on the populated areas. Still, I'd expect this one to dominate the news tomorrow.

Tsunami warnings have been issued for the entire American west coast, and Hawaii.

However, even a strong earthquake will not necessarily cause a tsunami. It depends on the kind of tectonic movement. Still, people living in coastal regions anywhere in the Pacific should keep their radios tuned in.

1st impact in Hawaii expected just after 3A local tomorrow.

http://www.kitv.com/news/hawaii-under-t ... Type=Story

So far 8 dead in Chile with about another 20 unaccounted for. Chile is used to seismic activity (when I was commissioning a filter in the north of the country near Calama there were little quakes just about every day, the response from the guys on the mine was mainly "meh" ) so have pretty good procedures for dealing with this and build their buildings to cope with it. This one did have people running into the street though.

There is pretty bad flooding in the coastal cities. The PTWC has downgraded the threat.

This could have been a lot worse.

I have got to stop following Southern California news on Facebook.

One lady-

"Oh my god I can't sleep we're supposed to have a Tsunami!"

Guy in response-

"Dude, it's supposed to be like a foot tall wave by the time it gets here, where do you live?"

Lady-

"Cerritos"



For those of you not in the know, that's about 10 miles inland and at least 100' above sea level.

The absurdity of that Cesspool Sprawl gets on my nerves...and yeah it's my own damned fault.

GQfluffy wrote:The absurdity of that Cesspool Sprawl gets on my nerves...and yeah it's my own damned fault.

It's not limited to SoCal. Six months after the one in Thailand, my Mom overheard people talking about how "that tsunami is still out there."

GQfluffy wrote:"Cerritos"

Eh, stupid is everywhere.

My apartment building in San Pedro is, quite miraculously, still standing. And I didn't even get any water inside!