[LiteKeeper]

I thought that stuff took millions of years. You mean it actually happened in one day? Wow!

[TruthConquers]

WOW! In one day! It must be a myth. They just made that up because they had nothing to do around that campfire last week.

hehehehe

[dr_lew]

...At the island of S. Maria (about thirty miles distant) the elevation was greater; on one part, Captain Fitz Roy founds beds of putrid mussel-shells still adhering to the rocks, ten feet above high-water mark: the inhabitants had formerly dived at lower-water spring-tides for these shells. The elevation of this province is particularly interesting, from its having been the theatre of several other violent earthquakes, and from the vast numbers of sea-shells scattered over the land, up to a height of certainly 600, and I believe, of 1000 feet. At Valparaiso, as I have remarked, similar shells are found at the height of 1300 feet: it is hardly possible to doubt that this great elevation has been effected by successive small uprisings, such as that which accompanied or caused the earthquake of this year, and likewise by an insensibly slow rise, which is certainly in progress on some parts of this coast.

Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle, Chapter XIV - Chiloe and Concepcion : Great Earthquake