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:
== 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
And there are a bunch of other reports, many of them in 5-6 range.
Update: Tsunami warning extended to countries as far as Australia and Japan,
after #Chile <http://twitter.com/search?q=%23Chile> quake
http://bit.ly/ayPOgX
--Mustafa
There are many streams from Chile on Ustream, TV de Chile
http://www.ustream.tv/channel-popup/tv-de-chile
They are reporting that at least a 15 story building is down,
emergency services are trying to organize, chemistry lab of a local
uni campus blew up due a fire started by the quake, more than 25 after
shocks ...
Just a reminder, if you see a receding ocean, run away. That means a
tsunami is imminent.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/02/27/chile.quake/index.html?hpt=T1
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.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/02/27/chile.quake/index.html?hpt=T1
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.txt
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