Same here. I've always wanted to go to the Patagonia area - that's some beautiful land. Dark_Tower - keep safe and good luck. Keep us updated (not at the expense of your safety of course and if you're trying to conserve a laptop's charge, too). Hopefully this won't be bad fatality-wise with the early warning systems in place.
My boyfriend's roommate has family in Chile. Hope they're all alright. This stuff gives heebie jeebies!
The last earthquake that I felt was almost 20yrs ago. I was in the shower and my our building started to rock side to side. I thought it was a large truck passing by our area but it scare the living hell out of me. This is crazy. We had like 2000 earthquakes in the last 100yrs. http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/eqlists/7up.html
Seems like the large scale natural disasters are getting more and more prevalent...might be a sign of the coming times...
For comparison: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richter_magnitude_scale Listed as the 7th highest on the scale. Keep in the mind that the Richter scale is not linear.
Earlier today or yesterday there was also a 7.0 earthquake in Japan. Perhaps the Mayans were right after all.
There have been catastrophic earthquakes and tsunamis throughout history beyond these scales...it was just largely before giant urban populations and seismographs, etc. Things on earth operate in some very long cycles. I wouldn't worry about the end of the world. I would however worry about people living on the coastline of Oregon. http://pameno.com/earthquake/24-tsunami/131-cantheyhappenherepart1.html
Lmao. clicked on the live link and they have some guy on that keeps saying Steve Lanksford's mother is a ****. They let this guy say this twice. Obviously not a scientist.
That's so crazy because I'm watching the live broadcasts, and the first thing I thought about when they said "Hilo" was BJ Penn. :grin:
Actually the Mayan Prophecies aren't anything that movies are depicting it. http://www.13moon.com/prophecy page.htm Earthquakes happen every yrs on a average of 20 per year.
if you said 10000 per year i would believe you. Small island on Pacific island or near Japan experiences more than 200 a year. After this earthquake, the surrounding areas had more than 100 afterquakes. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Maps/10/285_-35.php Here's a map showed everything above M5.
"The world will not end. It will be transformed... Everything will change...Change is accelerating now, and it will continue to accelerate...If the people of the earth can get to this 2012 date in good shape, without having destroyed too much of the Earth, we will rise to a new, higher level. But to get there we must transform enormously powerful forces that seek to block the way...Humanity will continue, but in a different way. Material structures will change. From this we will have the opportunity to be more human..." Im thinking a polar shift. I dunno everything will be interesting that day and it will be the last weekend for Christmas shopping that year too.
