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The Chile Tsunami of 2010

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posted on Mar, 3 2010 @ 05:01 PM
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Nice thread Phage. The power of nature is amazing. Nature could destroy mankind in the blink of an eye.



posted on Mar, 3 2010 @ 06:04 PM
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Great coverage phage!



It would be useful if we were able to predict these things.



posted on Mar, 3 2010 @ 06:56 PM
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What's ironic is how people expecting a 3 to 9 foot surge, are (happily) surprised when a surge shows up that is only discernible via time-lapse, and then a freak wave hits a cruise ship at port days later, that measured 26 feet high, killing 2, and injuring many more. Nature... go figure.



posted on Mar, 3 2010 @ 07:01 PM
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excellent analysis, phage. the next one will be bigger.

interesting how some large islands shield the areas behind them.

also interesting how the leading edge of the wavefront remains

homogeneously strong despite all the interference, as expected.

too bad no one has cobbled together an emergency alert service

that can efficiently text page - the NOAA PTWC emails alerts, but

you can't check email 24/7....hmmmm....



posted on Mar, 3 2010 @ 07:08 PM
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It seems like the amount of water that is displaced at the source of the earthquake has a direct effect on the size of the tsunami created. So am I corrrect in assuming that this quake was more of a lateral slip vs. a vertical thrust. Also, the original video posted by Phage was indeed cool. I was amazed at the amount of, for lack of a better term "rebound" off of the Aleutians.

[edit on 3-3-2010 by The Undertaker]



posted on Mar, 3 2010 @ 07:16 PM
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The earthquake in Chile occurred in a thrust fault which does produce vertical movement. The generation of a tsunami would depend on the amount of area lifted as well as the violence and amount of the uplift.

Fortunately neither seem to have been enough to create a destructive Pacific wide tsunami.


[edit on 3/3/2010 by Phage]



posted on Mar, 3 2010 @ 11:47 PM
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You would need to tow-in at those speeds. Maybe Laird Hamilton will give it a go.




posted on Mar, 4 2010 @ 01:24 AM
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Landslide tsunamis are fascinating to say the least. I for one find the case in Latoya Bay Alaska most interesting.




posted on Mar, 4 2010 @ 01:42 AM
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Yes, I saw that video about Latoya Bay a long time ago, and forgot, that the wave near the landslide reached heights of 1725 ft!



posted on Mar, 4 2010 @ 04:43 AM
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Here is another amazing animation done by the Earthquake Research Institute in Tokyo:

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