8.0-magnitude earthquake off Chile; tsunami alert issued for Latin America's Pacific coast

[Dougz]

At 8.2 it would be one of the 5 largest since 2000

[ASIC]

[QUOTE=Xieneus;44425068]Jesus that siren is creepy.[/QUOTE]

I found them only slightly annoying.

I also found it hard to hear the voices in the siren from my house.

[Killuah]

Turns out they had quite a few in the last days

[url]http://www.iris.edu/ieb/index.html?format=text&nodata=404&starttime=1970-01-01&endtime=2025-01-01&minmag=0&maxmag=10&mindepth=0&maxdepth=900&orderby=time-desc&limit=200&maxlat=-16.25&minlat=-24.15&maxlon=-63.83&minlon=-78.97&zm=7&mt=ter[/url]

[PuduEbooks]

Not to mention that we were all scared because everything pointed to a future big earthquake

It happened

[barttool]

[QUOTE=ccg;44424967]Here's some raw video from Chile:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM7c0vXmzEg[/media]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7MV_FM7UdQ[/media][/QUOTE]

I have heard a lot of jokes about the Chilean accent being really hard to understand but I didn't understand shit of what that girl in the first video said :v:

[Amber902]

We just had three earthquakes up here in CA too,

Earth pls stop we didn't do anything dont kill us

[The Chef]

National Tsunami Warning Center has determined that there is no threat for a Tsunami for the United States and Canada.
[url]http://www.tsunami.gov/product.php?id=TIBAK1.20140402.0235.004[/url]

[Marcoman]

Map of how long the waves will take to reach some places.
[T]http://i.imgur.com/Wbuq36a.jpg[/T]

[PuduEbooks]

[QUOTE=barttool;44425445]I have heard a lot of jokes about the Chilean accent being really hard to understand but I didn't understand shit of what that girl in the first video said :v:[/QUOTE]

She said "ohhh dude that dat alarm i just shat myself, it started shaking and everything started to make noise, look how they go up, look! *some joke i couldn't understand*"

[editline]2nd April 2014[/editline]

Aparently the death toll is 2, pretty low fortunately, but sad nevertheless.

[autodesknoob]

a guy fucking died from a heart attack

that siren is not making things better

[OvB]

[QUOTE=ccg;44424967]Here's some raw video from Chile:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM7c0vXmzEg[/media]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7MV_FM7UdQ[/media][/QUOTE]

Tsunami siren is a brilliant life saver. We all know what happens when everyone is caught off guard. You can't outrun it once it's swallowing you.

[sepu]

I ran to the hills. Now I'm back on my house. In Valparaiso nothing happened. Also, my phone started to make an alarm and saying (speaking) "Tsunami incoming, go to safe zone" with an alert like that creepy thing at usa.

I like how everything went smooth, unlike the clusterfuck that was the 2010 earthquake.

Edit: [URL="http://www.cooperativa.cl/noticias/pais/sismos/norte-grande/incendios-afectaron-a-viviendas-en-centro-de-iquique-tras-el-terremoto/2014-04-02/022934.html"]Here[/URL] are some pics about the destruction on the north of chile.

[Breen]

[QUOTE=oskramorir;44426920]I ran to the hills. Now I'm back on my house. In Valparaiso nothing happened. Also, my phone started to make an alarm and saying (speaking) "Tsunami incoming, go to safe zone" with an alert like that creepy thing at usa.

I like how everything went smooth, unlike the clusterfuck that was the 2010 earthquake.

Edit: [URL="http://www.cooperativa.cl/noticias/pais/sismos/norte-grande/incendios-afectaron-a-viviendas-en-centro-de-iquique-tras-el-terremoto/2014-04-02/022934.html"]Here[/URL] are some pics about the destruction on the north of chile.[/QUOTE]

The phone spoke the warning through the speakers ? That would be creepy as hell

[TheAlkaline]

Video on the tsunami:

[video=youtube;7wwG1PSz3UI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wwG1PSz3UI[/video]

[sepu]

I heard that the wave entered the city of iquique up to 350 meters. scary.
(sorry if my english is bad, it is not my native language)

[W key broke]

[QUOTE=Killuah;44424785]I'm doing a project about the subduction zone in this region right now this feels so weird[/QUOTE]
your avatar is an earthquake

[Snoberry]

[QUOTE=oskramorir;44426920]I ran to the hills. Now I'm back on my house. In Valparaiso nothing happened. Also, my phone started to make an alarm and saying (speaking) "Tsunami incoming, go to safe zone" with an alert like that creepy thing at usa.

I like how everything went smooth, unlike the clusterfuck that was the 2010 earthquake.

Edit: [URL="http://www.cooperativa.cl/noticias/pais/sismos/norte-grande/incendios-afectaron-a-viviendas-en-centro-de-iquique-tras-el-terremoto/2014-04-02/022934.html"]Here[/URL] are some pics about the destruction on the north of chile.[/QUOTE]

That's crazy. Wasn't the Tsunami only 1.8 meters? That's around 6 foot high, and it did that kind of damage?

[chaz13]

I don't really understand how a tsunami can be 1.8m high, aren't there normal waves bigger than that? In my mind it should be 50ft tall :v:

Of course a small one is preferable, though!

[OvB]

It's not the size that does the damage. It's the energy. A tsunami can look like a normal large wave except it doesn't stop at the beach.

[editline]2nd April 2014[/editline]

Which is why sirens are great because people expect them to be huge walls of water so they think nothing of the large waves on the horizon. Until you realize it never broke and now its right there and then it's too late to run.