one of the guys who was on american idol, Elliott Yamin, was in Santiago when the earthquake occurred. I just so happened to be on twitter during that time and saw his chilling tweet about how he thought he was going to die. He's still over there and running out of insulin. He seems to be getting a little desperate (which i don't blame him for) but anyway, everyone around the US have been interviewing him since Saturday morning but he still can't seem to find more insulin supplies. thats scary
Buddy, my house and everything I owned was wiped out by Hurricane Ike, and I still make light of things that happened there. So don't lecture me until you've been through something similar. I'm not getting into a flame war, so I'll take your ignorance as a blanket apology for your comments from here on out.
Steve Lankford works for Howard Stern's news dept. Surprised they haven't played that on the show today. Gotta be Captain Janks again,
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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N11212329.htm Chile aftershock measured at 7.2 magnitude 11 Mar 2010 15:00:04 GMT Source: Reuters SANTIAGO, Chile, March 11 (Reuters) - A 7.2 magnitude aftershock struck near Chile's capital Santiago on Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The aftershock was centered about 77 miles (124 km) west-southwest of Santiago and was measured at a depth of 6.2 miles (10 km), USGS said. -500 on 2012 being the end...
How the Chile Earthquake Went Nuclear By Michael Reilly | Thu Mar 11, 2010 03:47 AM ET If you want to grow a truly massive earthquake, you've got to give it space. Scientists have known this basic fact for years -- more powerful earthquakes ramp up the shaking by breaking along huge stretches of faults. The magnitude 7.0 earthquake just outside Port-Au-Prince in January unzipped a 65-kilometer (40.4-mile) long section of the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden Fault. Despite the unfathomable devastation it caused, it was a second-tier quake at best. http://news.discovery.com/earth/how-the-chile-earthquake-went-nuclear.html As has been widely reported, the Chile quake was a megathrust earthquake, the largest class of tremor we know of. At magnitude 8.8, it was over 500 times more powerful than the Haiti quake. In a preliminary analysis of data from the quake, researchers from the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences are starting to unravel how it got to be such a monster. Turns out, it was a chain reaction of sorts. In the first minute, activity was confined to the area around the epicenter of the quake, about 200 miles south of Santiago. In the second minute, it tore north toward Santiago and stopped, before rearing its ugly head again south of the epicenter and racing toward the city of Concepcion. As the animation shows, the quake was a string of different activity all popping off at roughly the same time. How this happens is a mystery of science. Stress builds ever so slowly, gradually for centuries and then -- Blam! -- a tear in the crust forms and propagates as fast as a bullet shot from a gun. In the latest Chile quake, a ribbon of Earth 700 kilometers (435 miles) long was shredded in a matter of about two minutes. It's like nuclear fission: if just one atom goes, no big deal. But string enough together and suddenly...mushroom cloud. Studying huge, sprawling forces operating at such high speeds tens of miles underground is tough work, which is what makes a study like this so useful. If scientists can figure out how ruptures propagate through faults to form giant quakes, they may be able to predict the impending final chapter in this round of Chilean megathrust quakes, as well as others around the world.
They(Gary Oldman) will have to pay my surviving offsprings in cows sense I assume money will be a thing of the past...well at least Book of Eli says it will and anything Denzel says must be.
Far out! Well, scary, but fascinating, Uprising. Thanks for the read. There are all sorts of earthquakes, from what I can gather, and there is the potential of having a devastating one not only on the West Coast, but in the area around New Madrid, Missouri, in the heartland of the country. The better we can understand these things, the better we can prepare for one and, hopefully, predict one. If anyone wants to read an excellent fictional account, based on science, of what a New Madrid quake could do in today's world, rather than the early 1800's, pick up a copy of The Rift, by Walter Jon Williams. It is riveting, edge of your seat stuff by an excellent author of "hard" science fiction (SF based as much on real science as possible, but still highly entertaining), his Dread Empire's Fall trilogy (can I give another plug? This guy's good!) being his best, but set in the far future.
