A Powerful 8.3-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Off Chile's Coast 56
wooferhound writes: A powerful 8.3-magnitude earthquake struck off Chile's coast on Wednesday, according to a preliminary assessment from the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake's epicenter was about 54 kilometers (34 miles) west of Illapel, Chile, USGS said. It occurred around 7:54 p.m. (6:54 p.m. ET). Chile's national emergency agency issued a tsunami alert, ordering evacuations in coastal areas from Arica to Puerto Aysen.
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If you like to eat fish like salmon or like to drink excellent inexpensive wine, it's very important.
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How important is Chile in the global supply chain?
How important are copper and lithium in the global supply chain?
There, ftfy (and, btw ... the ground is still moving here in Santiago :D )
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Less important than salmon and cheap wine IMHO.
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No man is an island,
Entire of itself,
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thy friend's
Or of thine own were:
Any man's death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in mankind,
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee.
John Donne
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How important is Chile in the global supply chain?
30% of world copper production, and the earthquake struck right next to one of the more important copper mines. But more important than that is the fact that we live in a planet with several hazards for living safely, and technology has to play a major role here. In Chile, we have greatly improved the building standards over the past century, to the point where the damages are negligible compared to a similar earthquake elsewhere. That's a very big triumph of technology applied to societal welfare.
In
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Do the same with California and Japan too, right?
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California is trying it's best to regulate, restrict, tax and police the residents out of the state but they just won't leave.
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Well a number of Germans did migrate to Chile in days gone by, particularly to the south.
A 9.5 earthquake in 1960 destroyed an iconic brewery in Valdivia founded by Karl Anwandter 109 years earlier.
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There is no production capacity shortage. The only shortage is an artificially imposed scarcity of money.
Just got several emails... (Score:4, Interesting)
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Just got 2 notifications at work stating that there is a warning, and that there may be damage to our area. I live in Southern California, and my place of work is on the coast.
Gotta love the news organisations in CA for non-sensational and decisive information.
Some poor guy out at 4am to film the tsunami, all six inches of it.
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The aftershocks are crazy too thus far! (Score:4, Informative)
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I think that would be a bit specialised to put under the Options button. Articles about Earthquakes only come about once a week, and are usually about some insignificant event like a 4.3 quake in on the San Andreas fault.
Aside: it would also be good if Slashdot had a "Reply to This" link under each post, so tha
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Aside: it would also be good if Slashdot had a "Reply to This" link under each post, so that people wouldn't reply out of place at the end of the thread all the time.
Er, I'm replying to this by clicking the "Reply to This" link under your post. One of us is missing something.
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6.3 58km W of Illapel, Chile 2015-09-17 04:10:31 UTC 40.1 km
5.3 89km WNW of Illapel, Chile 2015-09-17 04:02:10 UTC 19.5 km
6.2 44km SSW of Ovalle, Chile 2015-09-17 03:55:07 UTC 35.0 km
4.9 47km SSW of Ovalle, Chile 2015-09-17 02:59:29 UTC 35.0 km
6.4 64km NW of Illapel, Chile 2015-09-17 01:41:09 UTC 35.0 km
5.6 86km W of Illapel, Chile 2015-09-17 01:33:03 UTC 15.2 km
5.2 76km W of Illapel, Chile 2015-09-17 01:21:50 UTC 24.2 km
4.9 90km W of Illapel, Chile 2015-09-17 01:09
What photos and videos? (Score:2)
Is anyone else just seeing a standard Google map in the above link?
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As opposed to (Score:2)
a weak 8.3-Magnitude Earthquake...
and a 7.0 aftershock ... (Score:2)
We felt that in Brazil (Score:5, Interesting)
8.3 (Score:1)