Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 4:35 am Post subject: CHILE 8.8 EARTHQUAKE moved cities west!
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8.8 EARTHQUAKE CHILE
Buildings fall 200 miles from epicenter in Santiago
Death toll near 800 by March 1
Feb 27, 2010
A massive magnitude-8.8 earthquake struck near the coast of south-central Chile early on Saturday,
collapsing buildings and causing blackouts in parts of the capital Santiago, 200 miles away.
A major bridge is out.
No running water in quake areas (CNN)
TOXIC Fire at a chemical factory
no emergency services, roads have collapsed, traffic cant move
Serious damage caused by tsunami in Juan Fernandez Island
Tsunami could hit Easter Island, evacuation under way
URGENT action in Hawaii due to tsunami threat
CNN is reporting early - before dawn - a tsunami has occurred.
PACIFIC WIDE TSUNAMI WARNING - All around the Ring of Fire
A tsunami warning was issued for Chile and Peru by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center,
and a tsunami watch was issued for Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica and Antarctica.
Soon after, the U.S. Geological Survey said the quake had generated a tsunami that may have been destructive along the Chilean coast near the epicenter.
Several hospitals with structural failure, evacuated. Death toll 47 so far, before dawn.
The USGS said the earthquake struck 56 miles northeast of the city of Concepcion at a depth of 34 miles at 3:34 a.m. (1:34 ET).
Its magnitude was initially reported at 8.3 then 8.5.
Buildings shook and collapsed in Santiago. With phone lines down, confirmation of damage was difficult elsewhere, especially further south toward the epicenter.
The quake was felt in Argentina as well.
Depth 21.7 miles
This is the antipodal of the Japan quake yesterday
There was some tsunami in Japan, very little in Hawaii - they "dodged a bullet"
Sunday, February 28, 2010
As of Feb 28th early morning over 200 dead - and rising.
100 People Trapped in Collapsed Building in Concepcion, Chile, City Mayor Says
Tsunami warning ends after waves hit Japan
No reports of significant damage from surges in wake of deadly Chile quake
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii had issued a warning for 53 countries and regions in the area immediately after the magnitude-8.8 quake hit Chile on Saturday.
It lifted the warning after small waves were reported as far away as Japan and Russia. There were no reports of significant damage or injuries.
Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 5:35 am Post subject: First earthquake, then tsunami
First earthquake, then tsunami
Most of the earthquake’s 723 victims, most were in the wine-growing Maule region that includes Talcahuano, now a mud-caked, ravaged town of 180,000 just north of Concepcion.
March. 1, 2010
CONCEPCION, Chile - When the shaking stopped, Marioli Gatica and her extended family huddled in a circle on the floor of their seaside wooden home in this gritty port town, listening to the radio by a lantern’s light.
They heard firefighters urging Talcahuano’s citizens to stay calm and stay inside. They heard nothing of a tsunami — until it slammed into their house with an unearthly roar about an hour after Saturday’s magnitude 8.8 quake.
Gatica’s house exploded with water. She and her family were swept below the surface, swirling amid loose ship containers and other massive debris that smashed buildings into oblivion all around them.
“We were sitting there one moment and the next I looked up into the water and saw cables and furniture floating,” Gatica said.
She clung to her 11-year-old daughter, Ninoska Elgueta, but the rush of water ripped the girl from her hands. Then the wave retreated as suddenly as it came.
Two of the giant containers crushed Gatica’s home. A third landed seaward of where she floated, preventing the retreating tsunami from dragging her and other relatives away.
Soon Ninoska was back in her mother’s arms — she had grabbed a tree branch to avoid being swept away and climbed down as soon as the sea receded.
Mother gone
Gatica’s son, husband and 76-year-old father were OK as well, as were her sister and her family. The only relative missing was her 76-year-old mother, Nery Valdebenito, Gatica said as she waited in a hundreds-long line outside a school to report her losses.
“I think my mother is trapped beneath” the house, Gatica said.
As she spoke, firefighters with search dogs were examining the ruins of her home blocks away. Minutes later, the group leader drew his finger across his neck: No one alive under the house.
Such horrors abound along the devastated beach communities of Chile’s south-central coast, which suffered the double tragedy Saturday of the earthquake and the tsunami it caused. Of the quake’s 723 victims, most were in the wine-growing Maule region that includes Talcahuano, now a mud-caked, ravaged town of 180,000 just north of Concepcion.
Close to 80 percent of Talcahuano’s residents are homeless, with 10,000 homes uninhabitable and hundreds more destroyed, said Mayor Gaston Saavedra.
“The port is destroyed. The streets, collapsed. City buildings, destroyed,” Saavedra said.
Navy admits mistake
In Concepcion, the biggest city near the epicenter, rescuers heard the knocking of victims trapped inside a toppled 70-unit apartment building Monday and were drilling through thick concrete to reach them, said fire Commander Juan Carlos Subercaseux. By late Monday, firefighters had pulled 25 survivors and nine bodies from the structure.
Chile’s defense minister has said the navy made a mistake by not immediately activating a tsunami warning. He said port captains who did call warnings in several coastal towns saved hundreds of lives.
The waves came too quickly for a group of 40 retirees vacationing at a seaside campground in the village of Pelluhue. They had piled into a bus that was swept out to sea, along with trucks and houses, when the tsunami surged 200 meters (yards) into the summer resort town.
As of Monday, firefighters said, five of the retirees’ bodies had been recovered. At least 30 remained missing.
'Get out of your homes!'
Most residents in Pelluhue, where 300 homes were destroyed, were aware of the tsunami threat. Street signs point to the nearest tsunami evacuation route.
“We ran through the highest part of town, yelling, ’Get out of your homes!”’ said Claudio Escalona, 43, who fled his home near the campground with his wife and daughters, ages 4 and 6. “About 20 minutes later came three waves, two of them huge, about 6 meters (18 feet) each, and a third even bigger. That one went into everything.”
“You could hear the screams of children, women, everyone,” Escalona said. “There were the screams, and then a tremendous silence.”
In the village of Dichato, teenagers drinking on the beach were the first to shout the warning when they saw a horseshoe-shaped bay empty about an hour after the quake. They ran through the streets, screaming. Police joined them, using megaphones.
The water rose steadily, surging above the second floors of homes and lifting them off their foundations. Cars were stacked three high in the streets. Miles inland along a river valley, cows munched Monday next to marooned boats, refrigerators, sofas and other debris.
“The maritime radio said there wouldn’t be a tsunami,” said survivor Rogilio Reyes, who was tipped off by the teenagers.
Dichato Mayor Eduardo Aguilera said 49 people were missing and 800 homes were destroyed. Some people fled to high ground, only to return too early and get caught by the tsunami, he said. Fourteen bodies were found by Monday. The only aid: A fire department water truck.
The World Health Organization said it expected the death toll to rise as communications improve. For survivors, it said access to health services will be a major challenge and noted that indigenous people living in adobe homes were most at risk.
In Geneva, U.N. humanitarian spokeswoman Elisabeth Byrs said Chile was seeking temporary bridges, field hospitals, satellite phones, electric generators, damage assessment teams, water purification systems, field kitchens and dialysis centers.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said she was bringing 20 satellite phones as a first piece of a much larger U.S. aid package. Argentina said it was sending six aircraft loaded with a field hospital, 55 doctors and water treatment plants, and Brazil said it was sending a field hospital and rescue teams.
Looting abounds
Security was a major concern in Concepcion and other hard-hit towns. Most markets in Concepcion were ransacked by looters and people desperate for food, water, toilet paper, gasoline and other essentials Sunday, prompting authorities to send troops and impose an overnight curfew in the city. The interior ministry extended the Concepcion curfew to run from 8 p.m. Monday to noon Tuesday.
When a small convoy of armored vehicles drove along a downtown street, bystanders applauded, shouting: “Finally! Finally!”
Throughout Talcahuano, stick-wielding residents barricaded streets with tires and rubble to protect their homes in the absence of law enforcement.
Downtown, eight suspected looters kneeled outside a pharmacy, their hands on their heads, as a police officer taunted them.
“Are you praying?” he shouted. “I don’t hear you. Pray.”
Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 5:45 am Post subject: Chilean Quake Likely Shifted Earth’s Axis
Chilean Quake Likely Shifted Earth’s Axis
NASA Scientist Says
March 1, 2010 (Bloomberg)
The earthquake that killed more than 700 people in Chile on Feb. 27 probably shifted the Earth’s axis and shortened the day, a National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientist said.
Earthquakes can involve shifting hundreds of kilometers of rock by several meters, changing the distribution of mass on the planet. This affects the Earth’s rotation, said Richard Gross, a geophysicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, who uses a computer model to calculate the effects.
“The length of the day should have gotten shorter by 1.26 microseconds (millionths of a second),” Gross, said today in an e-mailed reply to questions. “The axis about which the Earth’s mass is balanced should have moved by 2.7 milliarcseconds (about 8 centimeters or 3 inches).”
The changes can be modeled, though they’re difficult to physically detect given their small size, Gross said. Some changes may be more obvious, and islands may have shifted, according to Andreas Rietbrock, a professor of Earth Sciences at the U.K.’s Liverpool University who has studied the area impacted, though not since the latest temblor.
Santa Maria Island off the coast near Concepcion, Chile’s second-largest city, may have been raised 2 meters (6 feet) as a result of the latest quake, Rietbrock said today in a telephone interview. He said the rocks there show evidence pointing to past earthquakes shifting the island upward in the past.
“It’s what we call the ice-skater effect,” David Kerridge, head of Earth hazards and systems at the British Geological Survey in Edinburgh, said today in a telephone interview. “As the ice skater puts when she’s going around in a circle, and she pulls her arms in, she gets faster and faster. It’s the same idea with the Earth going around if you change the distribution of mass, the rotation rate changes.”
Rietbrock said he hasn’t been able to get in touch with seismologists in Concepcion to discuss the quake, which registered 8.8 on the Richter scale.
“What definitely the earthquake has done is made the Earth ring like a bell,” Rietbrock said.
The magnitude 9.1 Sumatran in 2004 that generated an Indian Ocean tsunami shortened the day by 6.8 microseconds and shifted the axis by about 2.3 milliarcseconds, Gross said.
The changes happen on the day and then carry on “forever,” Benjamin Fong Chao, dean of Earth Sciences of the National Central University in Taiwan, said in an e-mail.
“This small contribution is buried in larger changes due to other causes, such as atmospheric mass moving around on Earth,” Chao said.
Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 7:54 am Post subject: Tsunami swept away fleeing bus full of retirees
Tsunami swept away bus full of retirees
Chile - The 40 retirees enjoying summer vacation at a seaside campground nestled under pine trees knew they had to move fast after Chile's powerful earthquake struck.
They didn't make it. The tsunami came in three waves, surging 200 yards into this Pacific Ocean resort town and dragging away the bus they'd piled into, hoping to get to high ground. Most of those inside were tourists, and only five of their bodies had been found by Monday, firefighters and witnesses said.
Pelluhue's horror underscored the destruction wrought by Saturday's pre-dawn 8.8-magnitude quake and the tsunami that ravaged communities along Chile's south-central coast — those closest to the quake's epicenter. Chile's death toll reached 723, and most died in the wine-growing Maule region that includes Pelluhue.
Survivors here found about 20 bodies, and an estimated 300 homes were destroyed. Most residents were aware of the tsunami threat; street signs pointed to the nearest tsunami evacuation route. The ruins of homes, television sets, clothes, dishwaters and dead fish cover the town's black sand beaches.
"We ran through the highest part of town, yelling, 'Get out of your homes!'" said Claudio Escalona, 43, who fled his home near the campground with his wife and daughters, ages 4 and 6. "About 20 minutes later came three waves, two of them huge, about 18 feet each, and a third even bigger. That one went into everything."
"You could hear the screams of children, women, everyone," Escalona said. "There were the screams, and then a tremendous silence."
Food is scarce
Destruction is widespread and food scarce all along the coast — in towns like Talca and Cauquenes, Curico and San Javier. In Curanipe, the local church served as a morgue. In Cauquenes, people quickly buried their dead because the funeral home had no electricity.
President Michelle Bachelet said authorities were flying hundreds of tons of food, water and other basics into the region.
After the quake rocked the gritty port town of Talcahuano, Marioli Gatica and her extended family huddled in a circle on the floor of their seaside wooden home, listening to the radio by a lantern's light.
They heard firefighters urging citizens to stay calm and stay inside. They heard nothing about a tsunami — until it slammed into their house with an unearthly roar. Gatica's house exploded with water. The family was swept below the surface, swirling amid loose ship containers and other heavy debris that smashed buildings into oblivion all around them.
"We were sitting there one moment and the next I looked up into the water and saw cables and furniture floating," Gatica said.
Two of the giant containers crushed Gatica's home. A third grounded between the ocean and where she floated, keeping the retreating tsunami from dragging her and other relatives out to sea. Her 11-year-old daughter, Ninoska Elgueta, clung to a tree as the wave retreated.
All the family survived except Gatica's 76-year-old mother, Nery Valdebenito, Gatica said. "I think my mother is trapped beneath" the house.
Firefighters with search dogs examined the ruins of her home. The group leader drew his finger across his neck: No one alive there.
80 percent homeless
Close to 80 percent of Talcahuano's 180,000 people are homeless, with 10,000 homes uninhabitable and hundreds more destroyed, Mayor Gaston Saavedra said.
"The port is destroyed. The streets, collapsed. City buildings, destroyed," Saavedra said.
In Concepcion, the biggest city near the epicenter, rescuers drilled through thick concrete to look for survivors trapped inside a toppled 70-unit apartment building. Firefighters had pulled 25 survivors and nine bodies from the structure.
Chile's defense minister has said the navy made a mistake by not immediately activating a tsunami warning. He said port captains who did call warnings in several coastal towns saved hundreds of lives.
In the village of Dichato, teenagers drinking on the beach were the first to shout the warning when they saw a horseshoe-shaped bay empty about an hour after the quake. They ran through the streets, screaming. Police joined them, using megaphones.
The water rose steadily, surging above the second floors of homes and lifting them off their foundations. Cars were stacked three high in the streets. Miles inland along a river valley, cows munched next to marooned boats, refrigerators, sofas and other debris.
"The maritime radio said there wouldn't be a tsunami," said Rogilio Reyes, who was warned off by the teenagers.
Dichato Mayor Eduardo Aguilera said 49 people were missing and 800 homes were destroyed. Some people fled to high ground, only to return too early and get caught by the tsunami, he said.
Death toll expected to rise
The World Health Organization said it expected the death toll to rise as communications improve. For survivors, it said access to health services will be a major challenge.
Security remained a concern. Most markets in Concepcion were ransacked by looters and people desperate for food, water, toilet paper, gasoline and other essentials Sunday, prompting authorities to send troops and impose an overnight curfew. The interior ministry extended the city curfew to run from 8 p.m. Monday to noon Tuesday.
When a small convoy of armored vehicles drove along a downtown street, bystanders applauded, shouting: "Finally! Finally!"
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 5:18 am Post subject: Chile fears health crisis, take years to recover
Chile fears health crisis, take years to recover
Official death toll 452 March 6 but hundreds missing
March 6, 2010
March 4th There was a 7.2 which USGS recorded as a 6.3 in northern Chile. I believe that was another quake, NOT an aftershock.
Aftershocks Plague Chile
Chile fears health crisis, but slow to let aid in. Mass vaccinations start, while many foreign
medical workers wait for orders. Chile launched a hepatitis and tetanus vaccination campaign and doctors warned of outbreaks
of diarrhea among people drinking unclean water, and infection among thousands of people displaced by the earthquake and
tsunami that heavily damaged or destroyed 36 hospitals and made garbage dumps of coastal towns and cities.
With many pharmacies looted, people suffering from diabetes, hypertension and psychological illnesses are going without medicine.
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 8:16 am Post subject: Chile quake moved Concepcion west
Chile quake moved Concepcion west
Mar 9
The massive 8.8 earthquake which struck the west coast of Chile Feb. 27th moved the entire city of Concepcion 3 metres to the west.
It was the fifth most powerful quake recorded since instruments have measured seismic shifts.
Santiago also shifted 27.7 centimetres to the west.
On South American east coast, Buenos Aires Argentina moved 4 centimetres to the west
and significant displacements were recorded as far away as the Falkland Islands.
Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 4:14 am Post subject: CHILI - ISRAEL - Palestinian connections
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CHILI - ISRAEL - Palestinian connections
I have waited for this NEWS.
I knew there was reason for the Chile quake which related to Israel.
If you look at maps of Israel and Chile, they are both long and thin.
The quake struck the HEART of Chile, and strong aftershocks continue weeks later.
If the USA presses Israel to split Jerusalem, the HEART of ISRAEL,
God will split America in half with a quake in the HEART of America.
The Palestinian community in Chile is believed to be the largest outside of the Arab world.
Estimates of the number of Palestinian descendants in Chile range from 350,000 to 500,000.
Palestinian community outside of the Arab world.
They form nine-tenths or more of the population of Arab origin in Chile.
Wiki claims - Many members of the Palestinian community in Chile follow the Christian religion.
HOWEVER, these are Catholics, and it is unlikely that many are actually christians.
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