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The_Beard said: Lol, I think you might have misinterpreted what I was insinuating. You made it seem that a 3 foot tsunami wave was barely anything to worry about when a 3 foot tsunami that goes a whole mile inland could cause some extreme damage.Defiance said: The_Beard said: You seem to be very uneducated about tsunamis.But anyways...the 'tsunami' wasn't big. 3 foot-high waves if I'm not mistaken. Which isn't that bad. You seem to be very uneducated about the use of quotation marks. National Geographic is uneducated on the matter as well apparently.... http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/02/100227-tsunami-hits-hawaii-after-huge-chile-earthquake/ |
| They aren't getting my fucking money. Haiti didn't get any, and Chile sure as hell isn't gonna be getting it. :P |
TropicalPants said: They aren't getting my fucking money. Haiti didn't get any, and Chile sure as hell isn't gonna be getting it. :P Chile doesn't need your money. They can fix their problems on their own. That said, my entire family lives in Santiago and they're all fine. A lot of the city is a mess, but they know how to fix everything. I think the last earthquake this big was in the sixties.... |
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| >I don't think the tsunami a few centimeters high killed anyone good to hear no body killed by that Tsunami, when it reached japan it's down to ~50cm in the 3rd wave But, well 1m cube water = 1 tonne Depending on the moving speed and where the person is, it can easily compress a person into meatball.rar with no recovery record. |
| So apparently this earthquake was so big it knocked the earth off it's axis and we lost .33 milliseconds off the day. Fuck that's some Science Fiction shit right there. Also Chile is one of the many places around the ring of fire that was projected to get a 8.0 or greater, they just had no idea when, They now say Northern part of Washington State might be next and maybe even after that parts of Asian, Japan I'm most worried about, they have been waiting for an 8.0 for a very very very long time now, this might just set it off. so now I'm getting alittle worried.... Haiti, fluke.... Chile oh fuck kinda worried.... but when the third one rolls around, I'm stock piling for Armageddon.... |
JigeroMar 3, 2010 1:08 AM
| It doesn't think, it doesn't feel, it doesn't laugh or cry..... All it does from dusk till dawn is make the soldiers die. |
| I guess compared to Chile, Haiti is really like hell. Their daily life was not far better before the earthquake. When you see what kind of sick people they bring to you after the quake, you know how bad their original health service was. If anyone is medical staff or studying medicine/nursing, take a chance to do a service there. You will learn a lot for sure. In medical service you may learn more. But basic job as food delivery is also needed too. Even you are not medical staff, I guess you would learn something there. It'd be great to perform 24/7 service but impossible, partly due to the lack of security force. Everyone need to be protected by the army during service and be escorted to & from the resting place. So even you apply, you may not have the chance. It really depends, whether you have the time & whether they have an offer. Not only $ is needed but manpower. One shift takes around 10 days. People who don't want to waste the ticket may stay for another shift. But don't go there alone. Ask your local charity groups. |
bottleMar 3, 2010 11:29 AM
bottle said: I guess compared to Chile, Haiti is really like hell. One thing that the media has not done a particularly good job of during all of this is comparing the two situations, instead relying on the moment magnitude scales (8.8 Chile vs. 7.0 Haiti) and the logarithmic comparison of the Chile earthquake releasing 500 times as much energy. While true, they rarely mention the other factors that made Haiti the more severe quake at a practical level. Among these is the much deeper hypocenter of the Chile quake which allowed much of the kinetic energy to dissipate as heat and the rock composition of the Haiti area which transmitted the energy more directly. The effect of this was that, on the surface, the Haiti earthquake felt much stronger by a large margin in some cases. The way that most seismologists measure this effect is with a completely different scale called the Modified Mercalli intensity scale which classifies their perceived strength on a scale of Level I (instrumental) up to Level XII (catastrophic). According to USGS, 5 million Chileans were exposed to Level VIII (Destructive) conditions, but none at a higher level. However, 2.4 million Haitians were exposed to Level IX (Ruinous) conditions, including many of their poorest areas like Carrefour. About 2,000 Haitians saw Level X (Disastrous) conditions, which was their maximum, two levels above anywhere on mainland Chile. Obviously, as stated earlier throughout the thread, building and infrastructure differences as well as the presence of slum conditions contributed a great, great deal to the vastly differing causality numbers; however, if you were on the ground at the moment of the quake, the Haiti quake would likely have provided a far more fearful situation. USGS Mercalli exposure estimates: Haiti Chile |
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Defiance said: The_Beard said: Lol, I think you might have misinterpreted what I was insinuating. You made it seem that a 3 foot tsunami wave was barely anything to worry about when a 3 foot tsunami that goes a whole mile inland could cause some extreme damage.Defiance said: The_Beard said: You seem to be very uneducated about tsunamis.But anyways...the 'tsunami' wasn't big. 3 foot-high waves if I'm not mistaken. Which isn't that bad. You seem to be very uneducated about the use of quotation marks. National Geographic is uneducated on the matter as well apparently.... http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/02/100227-tsunami-hits-hawaii-after-huge-chile-earthquake/ do even the three foot waves go right in( a mile)?? |
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