Earthquake in Chile: Are you all OK?

Arctodus said:
To add to Manuel's post, here is a link to a very,very strange cloud.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_iK1kG4TCo

Supposedly this was on 2/26/2010, the day before the 8.8 Quake.
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It looks kind of fake to me, like one of those digital animations. I would say it's specially noticeable when the car passes.
 
[quote author=mkrnhr]I'm talking about normalpeople because there were some who were enjoying all of this fear.[/quote]

THAT is a profound note. Think of it, would an approaching "Wave" make it very clear who is what?

[quote author=mkrnhr]Chilians are traumatized[/quote]

Argh, many of us who are not there, but who have been through natural disasters know that this is very, very, hard. People on the move, fear everywhere ... trauma brings change, and delicate beginnings of new growth and relationships. So in addition to all of the hurt, there are new relationships being formed across boundaries that might have been so easily crossed before. (Like that turtle who adopted the baby hippo after the 2004 Tsunami). And the bonds may be deeper than some have known before. So that's one bright side, however remote it may seem.
 
And yesterday a major "BlackOut" that left without electricity for most of the country ... This caused enough fear in people ... luckily it was only a couple of hours...
 
Hope you all in Chile are doing ok.

In my daily lookover of the USGS earthquake chart, I've noticed it's been active on a daily basis.

Solely curiosity: do any of you think about relocating? The reason I ask is I sometimes wonder(when I can affford to) what I would/will do in similar circumstances.

Best to you all.
 
So it appears that someone (in the know?) is thinking there might be a 'big one' somewhere in western Mex. sometime soon based on what the plates are doing. This is also why Chile is having daily doses, apparently.

My wife has been pretty concerned lately(watching '2012' the other night didn't help) and the news has been plastered recently with schools practicing for the 'inevitable'.

Ironically as I was sitting here reading and not 4 minutes ago, the seat started shaking and as my head was resting on the wall, so did that! Ran outside to see the antenna on my car flipping around. Short but my, a bit of a wakeup call!

Been awhile...haven't lived in California for a few years now.

Edit: Just saw it was a 4.7, about 50miles from us. A 5.1 hit Chile not 8 minutes before........
 
cholas said:
In my daily lookover of the USGS earthquake chart, I've noticed it's been active on a daily basis.
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Yeah, I have the gadget for USGS earthquakes in my desktop, and I noticed it has been pretty active. There has been no "break".
 
Wow! It doesn't seem to stop over there... :cry:

And this article, posted again by SOTT, makes so much more sense now, doesn't it?

Here's the comment posted by the SOTT editors about it:

Comment: We covered this story in 2006 and are reposting it now along with these eyewitness photographs. As we outlined in our recent installment of Connecting the Dots, this undersea activity, including the birth of a whole new island, does not bode well for our planet because increased undersea volcanism means that the ocean water is being heated. This heating of the water can lead to increased evaporation and heat pockets of the lower atmosphere. At the same time, the upper atmosphere is cooling due to increased comet dust (or other cosmic dust entering the solar system from who knows where?) - the evidence for which is the increasing number of fireball sightings being reported over the past dozen years or so, not to mention reports of colourful snow and high-altitude noctilucent clouds. The cosmic dust is electrically charged and tends to create drag on the Earth's rotation, slowing it down marginally. This affects the magnetic field which then increases earthquakes and volcanism, and a feedback loop gets going.

When the increased moisture in the lower atmosphere hits the cooling upper atmosphere, the result is torrential rains and/or increased snowfall depending on location and season of the location. It can also produce odd effects like falling chunks of ice, extraordinary hail storms in the middle of summer, and so on. There have been many reports of these phenomena over the past dozen years or so.

In short, we are witnessing the process of the initiation of an ice age and while the drama reported in the above story is entertaining, it is also a grim reminder of what is really going on in our solar system.
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cholas said:
So it appears that someone (in the know?) is thinking there might be a 'big one' somewhere in western Mex. sometime soon based on what the plates are doing. This is also why Chile is having daily doses, apparently.
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Who is that someone, cholas? Do you have a link/source?
 
Thanks for the link Ailen, quite a heavy reminder indeed.

Windmill knight said:
Who is that someone, cholas? Do you have a link/source?
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Recently this 'news' has been on tv broadcasts and in the papers here. My Spanish is not quite good enough to comprehend all, but my wife helps me through it.

From what is being reported, many schools, especially in the state of Guerrero(Acapulco) have been doing daily earthquake-preparation drills. There is mention of the good possibilty of a 'big one' along the fault there, related to the same in Chile. At first I brushed it off as I tend to do with most mainstream news, but....I'll look into it some more and report back.

As I'm writing, a 5.3 just occurred near the Guat border.
 
THAT is a profound note. Think of it, would an approaching "Wave" make it very clear who is what?
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Yes, it seems that something starts to polarize in people, their nature comes to the surface so to say.

The earth continues to move, and it seems it contaminated other places in south america. The article about volcanism puts thing in perspective and it is worrying. We are entering winter in the south hemisphere and the south is usually well known for precipitations. Look to ice age maps (http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/spaceart/earthicemap.jpg) is chilling :/

I noted also three moderate earthquakes in russia (siberia?).
 
cholas said:
Solely curiosity: do any of you think about relocating? The reason I ask is I sometimes wonder(when I can affford to) what I would/will do in similar circumstances.
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Sorry for the late reply cholas, I've been really busy...
Well, in my case I'm not thinking at all about relocating or looking for a safer place. Concerning these changing times, I don't think you could say that there is a safer location in the planet (comet impacts)... Besides, I feel that being too concerned with your physical survival and thus relocating when there is no known real danger ahead is falling in an STS pattern, focusing all your energies in your physical well being instead of focusing in your soul progression (wich includes taking care of your machine, of course, but without forgetting what's first...).
 
Thanks for replying, Manuel. Well said and for the most part, that is my current thought also.

Good to hear your take.
 
Here is a good website for earthquake frequency trends from 1973 to date.

_http://research.dlindquist.com/quake/historical/?mag=0&type=num&freq=year&style=nonlinear

You can change the graph style and data types (Number of Quakes / Total Magnitude / Avg. Magnitude etc.) on the left column.

Sure there is a significant increase.
Also the "Geographic" tab shows the geographical distribution of earthquakes annually.

Here is another statistical data from another website (_http://www.earth.webecs.co.uk) :

DATES FROM & TO PERIOD NO. EARTHQUAKES (Mag. > 6.99)
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1863 to 1900 incl 38 yrs 12
1901 to 1938 incl 38 yrs 53
1939 to 1976 incl 38 yrs 71
1977 to 2014 incl 38 yrs 144 (to Sept. 2009) predict >180 in total.
 
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