40 Meter (130 ft) Tsunami Wave Smashes Juan Fernandez Island

Hollywood Backstage ^ | February 27, 2010 | Gwen Spinali

[SlowBoat407]

We’re getting this news from “Hollywood Backstage”??

Any celebrities injured?

[SERE_DOC]

Not to mention Bush’s fault....

[oldleft]

130 feet?!? If true, that’s a monster, one of the largest, if not he largest, ever recorded. They need to evacuate ALL the beaches in Mexico and Hawaii right now and wait until the threat passes before reopening them.

For reference, the tsunami in Thailand was about 20 feet.

[P.O.E.]

Any celebrities injured?

CNN now teasing an upcoming report from an American Idol singer who was in Chile at the time of the quake. I kid you not.

[metmom]

Was.....

[Birdsbane]

“An obvious example of global warming.”

Yeah, from the inside, out.

[library user]

Don’t you mean Indonesia and not Thailand?

[DollyCali]

[SkyPilot]

A wave of 130 feet is of Biblical proportions. A 100 foot wave is the size of a 10 story building.

Upon hearing of the magnitude of this quake, I pondered how the Richter scale is logarithmic, and not linear.

Most of the reporters who seem to be covering this quake do not seem to grasp this concept. The them, an 8.8 quake is "one digit greater" than a 7.8 quake, which is one digit bigger than a 6.8 quake.

Not so. The difference in power of one gradient on the Richter scale is incredible.

[txhurl]

Maggief has some harbor/beach pics, post 970, main thread.

[ASA Vet]

Phuket Thailand got hit hard. (Phu is pronounced like in Winnie the Pooh.)
A friend was on the Island when it hit. She was in a hotel on a hill, so was safe, but was stranded on the Island for three days while they repaired the airport.
The earthquake actually moved Bangkok 1 1/2 inches to the north.

[BushMeister]

Lots of high ground on these islands. Unfortunately, people were probably occupying the low ground, right down near the sea:

[Between the Lines]

130 foot Tsunami wave has hit Juan Fernandez Island swallowing the Island

Juan Fernandez Island is very mountainous and reaches a height of 6562 feet. I doubt it was "swallowed". All of the Chilean Islands are very mountainous.

[BushMeister]

More buildings near the sea:

[Between the Lines]

Unfortunately, people were probably occupying the low ground, right down near the sea:

Note that only one side of the island would be hit by the wave, the other side would be virtually unharmed.

[JRios1968]

[Mr. Jeeves]

Main thread has a quote from the government on Juan Fernandez - says it was actually 3 meters/10 feet.

[MCH]

Phuket Thailand got hit hard. (Phu is pronounced like in Winnie the Pooh.)

Whatever. All I know is, if I saw a wave anywhere near that big rolling toward me on the shore, I'd be like, "Phuket! I'm getting out of here!"

[Chode]

next it'll be those Evil Offshore Oil Wells fault...

[Freddd]

Oh let me give an unconfirmed report,

It was 300 feet high!