Non-IT News Thread
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The just keep coming....
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Peru has just issued a tsunami watch now as well. Not surprisingly.
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Chilean quake measured in Switzerland...
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That one meter wave spike has grown to twenty meters. This is going to be a real one...
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That's a 61ft wave for the Americans. Pretty epic. People are going to notice that.
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The aftershocks continue...
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Surfs up....
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Chile just got the first of the tsunami.....
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Crowds awaiting the tsunami in Valparaiso
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@scottalanmiller said:
Crowds awaiting the tsunami in Valparaiso
They don't look that elevated to me.. .are they not expecting more than a 50 ft wave? Even that would seemingly be high enough to get them from the picture.
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I didn't realize earthquakes were this common. There were 87 yesterday along around the world.
This is an interesting map
And a new earthquake just popped on in Taiwan while I was looking at the map.
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@Dashrender said:
I didn't realize earthquakes were this common. There were 87 yesterday along around the world.
This is an interesting map
And a new earthquake just popped on in Taiwan while I was looking at the map.
I subscribe to a twitter feed for Japanese earthquakes. They happen all the time just there.
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@scottalanmiller I am really quite confused as to why these people are so close to the shore line.
Their elevation does appear to be high enough, but it's a shore line. If a big enough wave comes in everything there would be gone.
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@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Crowds awaiting the tsunami in Valparaiso
They don't look that elevated to me.. .are they not expecting more than a 50 ft wave? Even that would seemingly be high enough to get them from the picture.
61ft was measured at sea which means far larger could hit land. They were expecting potentially quite a lot of water. Ended up not hitting 20ft at landfall, though. But you have to get to much higher ground than the height of the tsunami for safety.
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Exactly, which is why I was confused all those people were so close to the coast.
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@Dashrender said:
I didn't realize earthquakes were this common. There were 87 yesterday along around the world.
This is an interesting map
And a new earthquake just popped on in Taiwan while I was looking at the map.
While I was in Panama they had, at the BioMuseo, a live map of just the region showing the earthquakes that had happened in the last two weeks (live updating.) You could see a hundred or so regional quakes. We had several, including a 5.9, while we were there.
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Hernando County, Florida: Woman in House With Hundreds of Knives Tried to Stab Officer, Police Say
Deputies were serving felony warrants when Nickole Dykema lunged at an officer with a sword or machete, then fled into a room with about 500 bladed weapons and fake severed limbs, police said.
