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Today we had yet another earthquake here in Chile, a 6.1 with epicentre about 20 km away from me. It still shock my house pretty much!

We live on a very much alive planet...

Anders Pamdal.

I was in the Lake Tahoe region in 1989 when that quake hit San Francisco. I think I was in my truck at the time because I didn't feel a thing. I used to live about 5 km from the epicenter in Hollister. That put a damper on my plans to go visit old freinds so I stayed in the mountains. That's as close as I ever got to an earthquake. Not many of them here on the east coast.
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Here in Chile you feel atleast one small quake every month, but sometimes they grow strong and one doesn't know if one have to leave the house or not...

I do think it's very intressting though. Does anyone know if there is a OS program that shows the quakes epicentre and wavefile?

Anders

First Chile, today Hawaii. About an hour ago. Hope there isn't a Tsunami.

tech2000 wrote:Today we had yet another earthquake here in Chile, a 6.1 with epicentre about 20 km away from me. It still shock my house pretty much!

We live on a very much alive planet...

Anders Pamdal.

Just met a colleague from Univ. Santa Maria/Valparaiso here in Lisbon/ Portugal. After asking him about that recent quake, he smiled and and said "below 7 we usually don't talk much about it"... Wow.

It just implies that in Chile a lot of quake reinforcement does indeed seem go into the construction of buildings. With a strengh of 7.0 typical 20000 lives are lost in Turkey for example, because there that money tends to go into other "pockets"...

Bye Fridger

t00fri wrote:

tech2000 wrote:Today we had yet another earthquake here in Chile, a 6.1 with epicentre about 20 km away from me. It still shock my house pretty much!

We live on a very much alive planet...

Anders Pamdal.

Just met a colleague from Univ. Santa Maria/Valparaiso here in Lisbon/ Portugal. After asking him about that recent quake, he smiled and and said "below 7 we usually don't talk much about it"... Wow.

It just implies that in Chile a lot of quake reinforcement does indeed seem go into the construction of buildings. With a strengh of 7.0 typical 20000 lives are lost in Turkey for example, because there that money tends to go into other "pockets"...

Bye Fridger

Hi Fridger, your colleague is absolutly right, everything below 7 isn't even called an earthquake here, it's just a tremor. I'm glad I didn't experianced the earthquake in Valdivia/Chile 1960 May 22 19:11:14 UTC with a magnitude of 9.5 on the richterscale,the following tsunami cleaned the cost.

People did get a warning though, a smaller tremor 30 minutes before the BIG quake that made the people go outside and check for damages.

We are waiting for a really big one though.. Usually they come every 20 years, the last one was 1985... so...

Bye, Anders

Anders,

actually, it turned out that I won't be able to drink a beer with you beginning of December in your favorite bar in Vinha del mar. For technical reasons and other constraints I had to shift my trip to Valparaiso to the second half of March next year.

Bye Fridger

t00fri wrote:Anders,

actually, it turned out that I won't be able to drink a beer with you beginning of December in your favorite bar in Vinha del mar. For technical reasons and other constraints I had to shift my trip to Valparaiso to the second half of March next year.

Bye Fridger

Hi Fridger!

Well, the invitations is still open for that beer in mars even if the summer is going to its end.

Since you visit us from the other side of the globe I should also take you on some sort of a guided tour through Valparaiso since we have some very nice scenaries and extreemly narrow streets.

Send me a PM in time if you are intrested so I can give you my phonenumber.

I was also wondering if you are going to have a seminarium of some sort that is open for the public?

Bye, Anders