Chile (fyi)

Sat Feb 27 17:21:04 UTC 2010

On Feb 27, 2010, at 8:54 AM, Marshall Eubanks wrote:

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> On Feb 27, 2010, at 7:49 AM, Jorge Amodio wrote:
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>> http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/02/27/chile.quake/index.html?hpt=T1
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>> On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 6:47 AM, Larry Sheldon  
>> <LarrySheldon at cox.net> wrote:
>>> On 2/27/2010 1:20 AM, chaim.rieger at gmail.com wrote:
>>>> Gettingreports of loss of connectivity to parts of chile
>>>>
>>>> They had an 8.5 a short while ago.
>>>
>>> At that magnitude, I don't know how significant .3 is, but from  
>>> the USGS:
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> They use the magnitude moment scale (Mw), and 0.3 magnitudes means  
> 2.8 times the energy.
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> Mw = 8.8 is equivalent to maybe 5 Teratons of TNT.
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> Regards
> Marshall
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http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/?region=1 has Tsunami warnings from this  
event.

This

http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/messages/pacific/2010/pacific.2010.02.27.154316.txt

has a list of predicted Tsunami arrival times for a wide range of  
locations in the Pacific, including

NEW ZEALAND EAST CAPE 37.7S 178.5E 1918Z 27 FEB
AUSTRALIA HOBART 43.3S 147.6E 2105Z 27 FEB
HAWAII HILO 19.7N 155.1W 2119Z 27 FEB
JAPAN KUSHIRO 42.9N 144.3E 0435Z 28 FEB
CHINESE TAIPEI HUALIEN 24.0N 121.6E 0626Z 28 FEB
Z is of course UTC.
Regards
Marshall

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>>>                    == PRELIMINARY EARTHQUAKE REPORT ==
>>>
>>> ***This event has been revised.
>>>
>>>
>>> Region:                            OFFSHORE MAULE, CHILE
>>> Geographic coordinates:            35.846S,  72.718W
>>> Magnitude:                        8.8 Mw
>>> Depth:                            35 km
>>> Universal Time (UTC):             27 Feb 2010  06:34:14
>>> Time near the Epicenter:          27 Feb 2010  03:34:14
>>> Local standard time in your area: 27 Feb 2010  00:34:14
>>>
>>> Location with respect to nearby cities:
>>> 104 km (65 miles) WSW (246 degrees) of Talca, Chile
>>> 114 km (71 miles) NNE (15 degrees) of Concepcion, Chile
>>> 321 km (200 miles) SW (215 degrees) of SANTIAGO, Chile
>>>
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