On Feb 27, 2010, at 8:54 AM, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
On Feb 27, 2010, at 7:49 AM, Jorge Amodio wrote:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/02/27/chile.quake/index.html?hpt=T1
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 6:47 AM, Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net> wrote:
On 2/27/2010 1:20 AM, chaim.rieger@gmail.com wrote:
Gettingreports of loss of connectivity to parts of chile
They had an 8.5 a short while ago.
At that magnitude, I don't know how significant .3 is, but from the USGS:
They use the magnitude moment scale (Mw), and 0.3 magnitudes means 2.8 times the energy.
Mw = 8.8 is equivalent to maybe 5 Teratons of TNT.
Regards Marshall
http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/?region=1 has Tsunami warnings from this event. This http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/messages/pacific/2010/pacific.2010.02.27.154316... has a list of predicted Tsunami arrival times for a wide range of locations in the Pacific, including NEW ZEALAND EAST CAPE 37.7S 178.5E 1918Z 27 FEB AUSTRALIA HOBART 43.3S 147.6E 2105Z 27 FEB HAWAII HILO 19.7N 155.1W 2119Z 27 FEB JAPAN KUSHIRO 42.9N 144.3E 0435Z 28 FEB CHINESE TAIPEI HUALIEN 24.0N 121.6E 0626Z 28 FEB Z is of course UTC. Regards Marshall
== PRELIMINARY EARTHQUAKE REPORT ==
***This event has been revised.
Region: OFFSHORE MAULE, CHILE Geographic coordinates: 35.846S, 72.718W Magnitude: 8.8 Mw Depth: 35 km Universal Time (UTC): 27 Feb 2010 06:34:14 Time near the Epicenter: 27 Feb 2010 03:34:14 Local standard time in your area: 27 Feb 2010 00:34:14
Location with respect to nearby cities: 104 km (65 miles) WSW (246 degrees) of Talca, Chile 114 km (71 miles) NNE (15 degrees) of Concepcion, Chile 321 km (200 miles) SW (215 degrees) of SANTIAGO, Chile
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