Magnitude 8.0 quake off Chile sparks tsunami warning along Latin America's Pacific coast

Yahoo News ^ | 4-1-2014

[Mad Dawgg]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A massive magnitude 8.0 earthquake on Tuesday off the coast of Chile, near the mining port of Iquique, sparked a tsunami warning for all of Latin America's Pacific coast, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said.

"An earthquake of this size has the potential to generate a destructive tsunami that can strike coastlines near the epicenter within minutes and more distant coastlines within hours," it said.

[Resettozero]

Patagonia isn't 5,400 miles from central Chile... maybe they meant 540 miles.

Malaysian authorities must be coordinating the info.





/sarc

[tcrlaf]

BREAKING NEWS: Ongoing evacuations in Iquique, Chile after major earthquake.

[lonevoice]

ping if you’re lurking

[Chgogal]

I was going to do a separate post. I'm glad you linked this. Those Bison are running pretty fast. May be there are wolves chasing ‘em? BTW, the car is going the wrong way. ; )

[tcrlaf]

Chile’s National Seismological Centre upgrades magnitude of earthquake to 8.3.

[MNDude]

Dude, this is barely a thread to joke about that.

[lonevoice]

ping also to #82

[tcrlaf]

Chile’s navy says first tsunami wave has already hit parts of coastline

http://news.yahoo.com/chiles-navy-says-first-tsunami-wave-already-hit-004051747—sector.html

[Sarah Barracuda]

I wonder, if Pelosi’s nasty a@@ carcass was floating in the San Francisco Bay, would that cause the ocean to become polluted..I wouldn’t want to swim in that

[BigIsleGal]

Bkmk

[don-o]

[tcrlaf]

TSUNAMI INFORMATION STATEMENT NUMBER 3
NWS PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER EWA BEACH HI
235 PM HST TUE APR 01 2014

TO - CIVIL DEFENSE IN THE STATE OF HAWAII

SUBJECT - TSUNAMI INFORMATION STATEMENT

THIS STATEMENT IS FOR INFORMATION ONLY. NO ACTION IS REQUIRED AT
THIS TIME. HOWEVER... THE TSUNAMI THREAT TO HAWAII IS STILL
BEING EVALUATED.

AN EARTHQUAKE HAS OCCURRED WITH THESE PRELIMINARY PARAMETERS

ORIGIN TIME - 0147 PM HST 01 APR 2014
COORDINATES - 19.8 SOUTH 70.8 WEST
LOCATION - OFF THE COAST OF NORTHERN CHILE
MAGNITUDE - 8.2 MOMENT

EVALUATION

THE PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER HAS ISSUED AN EXPANDING
REGIONAL TSUNAMI WARNING AND WATCH FOR PARTS OF THE PACIFIC
LOCATED CLOSER TO THE EARTHQUAKE. AN EVALUATION OF THE PACIFIC
WIDE TSUNAMI THREAT IS UNDERWAY AND THERE IS A POSSIBILITY THAT
HAWAII COULD BE ELEVATED TO A WATCH OR WARNING STATUS.

IF TSUNAMI WAVES IMPACT HAWAII THEIR ESTIMATED EARLIEST ARRIVAL
TIME IS

0324 AM HST WED 02 APR 2014

[HiTech RedNeck]

ass hole?

[lonevoice]

Suggest following tcrlaf's posts on this thread for the latest updates.

Great job consolidating so many sources of breaking news reports, tcrlaf. Much appreciated.

[palmer]

60 foot or more tsunami there is not out of the question. Same spot at this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1877_Iquique_earthquake

[tcrlaf]

KHON Channel 2, Honolulu: khon2 News ‏@KHONnews · 3m UPDATE: Emergency centers for all Hawaii counties are in teleconference at State Civil Defense

[blam]

"I was going to do a separate post. I'm glad you linked this."

Good. Go ahead and do a 'stand-alone' post for the Yellowstone article about the animals.

[txhurl]

Chilean twitterverse doesn’t seem to have much to say...

[don-o]

You might say that. I couldn’t possibly comment.

[BigIsleGal]

Thanks..we’re having unrelated flash flood warnings until 5pm.
Luck to all.