8.8 in Chile

Gonz

Gonz

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HOLY CRAP!!!!! That makes the ones I've been in seem tame.

Time to compare 3rd world building codes? 147 in Chile...300,000 in Haiti.

Amazing.
 
I certainly hope there isn't any more loss of life, or property destruction.
I do hope though that there's some decent equipment setup in case there is a big tsunami.
so data can be gathered.
It'd be a shame if an opportunity was missed. Especially if more property damage
does occur.
At least there'd be some gain from it.
 
8.8 in Chile pshaw

yeah I want cali to get with an 8.8!
then we'd have something to talk about
 
Cali needs an 8.8. LA or SF, take your pick.

And then there is Hawaii....

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Fox has a camera waiting on the Big Island, waiting for the 400' movie tsunami to show up. It's a boring scene with a long wait.
 
was...they said the effects are starting to be felt...the water is receding!...,
and now they quit showing it.
 
Yeha, been streaming 4 channels, very little action. While its still cool it lacked the vicious attack we all were hoping for.

I loved seeing the swimmer and the surfer out there tempting fate. :bgtup:
 
so far, it looked like a cool little drop-n-rise event, but surely somebody
got some better vid than what I've seen.
I've seen much bigger stuff on the North Shore, in surfing events.
 
different type of wave.

A surge is wide perpendicular to a normal crest, like miles sometimes. Its more as if the sea level rises as it passes.
 
yeah, but it still looks cool.

I wonder what the record is for riding a tsunami inland is.
I heard about one couple in Fl, that rode a house top for about 18hrs,
and over 30 miles in a hurricane surge once.
 
eh, I started to edit that post, but....I'm lazy.

rode..."and lived".

wouldn't be good to spectate on the dead, according to my religious beliefs.
 
Naw I gotcha on that point. I more referring to distance surviving/bobbing that might be a record.

Being pulled along with a surge though a city has got to be tough on the body.
 
I don't know how rough it was, but I have heard of a person surviving
3 days at sea, with no flotation anything, after the boat was sunk by waves.

Not much obstacle to try to avoid there though.
 
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