8.8 - Magnitude Quake Hits Chile *Merged*

[yogi3939]

Another moderate to strong aftershock, guys and gals. Around a 6-magnitude according to early readings. Happened at 12:04am local time. Not much detail, just a quick post! This was from my iPod...apparently I'm addicted. :hehee

last post for tonight, I promise!

Downgraded now to a 5.5

And i think we are both addicted.

[cocopea9052]

Downgraded now to a 5.5

And i think we are both addicted.

:wave Yogi

That's good, that means it most likely did little or no damage. With them having lost all their power, last thing they need is to be rocked by another one.

Do you know if their power was fully restored yet?

[twisty58]

Yeah, big time.

[heart_changed99]

Curious...why are they calling them aftershocks if they are, indeed, earthquakes? Are they just confused?:scratch

[yogi3939]

:wave Yogi

That's good, that means it most likely did little or no damage. With them having lost all their power, last thing they need is to be rocked by another one.

Do you know if their power was fully restored yet?

The lst update I saw was about 80% restored, could be more by now.

[cocopea9052]

Curious...why are they calling them aftershocks if they are, indeed, earthquakes? Are they just confused?:scratch

They should just call them "afterquakes" ....those are not aftershocks of that magnitude....

[heart_changed99]

They should just call them "afterquakes" ....those are not aftershocks of that magnitude....

:sad

[ngraham]

It's been over 2 weeks since the initial 8.8 there. I live in the midwest, so I'm not really educated on earthquakes, only been in 1 and 1 aftershock, but it seems to me it's a little late to be calling it an aftershock isn't it?

[CakeDecorator]

Wow, this is just amazing. My husband told me about this yesterday!!!


http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/03/chile-earthquake-moved-entire-city-10-feet-to-the-west/


The magnitude 8.8 quake that struck near Maule, Chile, Feb. 27 moved the entire city of Concepcion 10 feet to the west.

Precise GPS measurements from before and after the earthquake, the fifth largest ever recorded by seismographs, show that the country’s capital, Santiago, moved 11 inches west. Even Buenos Aires, nearly 800 miles from the epicenter, shifted an inch. The image above uses red arrows to represent the relative direction and magnitude of the ground movement in the vicinity of the quake.

The analysis comes from a project led by Ohio State earth scientist Mike Bevis that has been using GPS to record movements of the crust on Chile since 1993. The area is of particular interest to geoscientists because it is an active subduction zone, where an oceanic plate is colliding with a continental plate and being pushed into the Earth’s molten mantle below.

The world’s largest recorded earthquakes since 1900 have all occurred in subduction zones, including the largest quake ever recorded, which was a magnitude 9.5 in 1960 in Chile not too far from February’s earthquake. The second largest was a 9.2 in Alaska in 1964, and the third was the magnitude 9.1 Sumatra quake of 2004 that created the tsunami that killed more than 200,000 people. The fourth largest quake was a magnitude 9 on Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula.

Read More http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/03/chile-earthquake-moved-entire-city-10-feet-to-the-west/#ixzz0iN8EKlKH

[Zerozx]

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