8.8 Earthquake Hits Chile

[TWCToday]

I will be cleaning up this thread. Remain on topic please as we all know our opinions and feelings on this. No need to continue it

[Anistorm]

Can I turn this around and give you guys more sad news updates about this horrible earthquake?  dang.

Death toll in Chile has risen up to 708. President Michelle Bachelet and President-Elect Sebastian Pineda both spoke out of this earthquake last night. In Bachelet's words, Chile is in a "state of catastrophe".

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/02/28/chile.quake/index.html?hpt=T2

[TWCToday]

Can I turn this around and give you guys more sad news updates about this horrible earthquake?  dang.

Death toll in Chile has risen up to 708. President Michelle Bachelet and President-Elect Sebastian Pineda both spoke out of this earthquake last night. In Bachelet's words, Chile is in a "state of catastrophe".

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/02/28/chile.quake/index.html?hpt=T2

You can hear her official speech last night here
'Let's be strong, Chile' (The video's owner prevents external embedding)

Strong words

[Localonthe8s]

Several fatalities now reported from a locally produced tsunami in chile. The residents there got no warning:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/lt_chile_earthquake

[TWCToday]

Several fatalities now reported from a locally produced tsunami in chile. The residents there got no warning:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/lt_chile_earthquake

Yea almost impossible and useless for a warning so close. Just horrible

[lfmusiclover]

You know what amazes me most about this earthquake? It was so strong that it actually changed the rotation speed of the planet, making our day shorter by 1.26 milliseconds! 

[Anistorm]

You know what amazes me most about this earthquake? It was so strong that it actually changed the rotation speed of the planet, making our day shorter by 1.26 milliseconds! 

Yeah, I am very shocked about that fact. I want it back!

[phw115wvwx]

You know what amazes me most about this earthquake? It was so strong that it actually changed the rotation speed of the planet, making our day shorter by 1.26 milliseconds! 

Yeah, I am very shocked about that fact. I want it back!

You'll get that time back eventually.  The Earth's rotation has been slowing down on average over the years due to friction from the tidal forces between our planet and the Moon, but that earthquake gave us a temporary little jolt forward.  After all, it's estimated that the energy of that earthquake was the equivalent of 15.8 billion tons of TNT going off at once!

[Jonathan]

You know what amazes me most about this earthquake? It was so strong that it actually changed the rotation speed of the planet, making our day shorter by 1.26 milliseconds! 

It's microseconds. It reduced our day by 0.000000126 seconds, if I remember the amount of 0s correctly.

[TWCToday]

A lot of powerful aftershocks still around 6.0

[Anistorm]

Death toll now is 800 +. Expect that number to rise up to thousands.

Locally, LA rescue workers are waiting for the call to fly over to Chile to help with recovery efforts.

[TWCToday]

Death toll now is 800 +. Expect that number to rise up to thousands.

Locally, LA rescue workers are waiting for the call to fly over to Chile to help with recovery efforts.

Quite remarkable how Chile has been able to more or less remain independent and have been able to handle the situation using their own resources for so long.

LA rescue workers have been called off
http://www.scpr.org/news/2010/03/03/la-rescue-teams-chile-deployment-called/