8.8 Chile Earthquake!

[RICHARD]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35615455...cas/?gt1=43001

Dude.

Oh my dear lord. What a tragedy.

One reporter said the quake lasted three minutes.

[Freedom]

WOW, and a 7.0 one yesterday in Okinawa!

[boomersooner]

How horrible....it doesn't sound like it hit in an overpopulated area like the one in Haiti, thank goodness.....the tsunami alarms are going to go off at 6:00 a.m. local time in Hawaii, and people have 5 hours to evacuate and/or go to higher ground....They said these waves will be the biggest to hit the islands since 1960...also caused by an earthquake in Chile.....

[Freedom]

Already reported 85 dead in Chile. I was going to put about the tsunami warning for Hawaii, but I see it is here.

[wombat2u2004]

Wow, that's unreal stuff to us here.

[RICHARD]

Wow, that's unreal stuff to us here.

Everyone describes it as a truck or train rumbling by your house.
I just am stunned by a three minute earthquake.

Reading that sentence took 7 seconds?

sit down and take a timer to three minutes.

It's an eternity.

[momoffuzzyfaces]

I feel so quilty sitting here. We finally have sunshine and temps going to be near 40 while the people on the east coast are being smothered in snow, Chili had and 8.8 earthquake and Hawaii is having a Tsunami warning.

[Taz_Zoee]

There is also a tsunami warning for the San Francisco Bay Area today at 1:26. I will be hoping it doesn't hit. That is MUCH too close to home.

So tragic about Chile. I worked with a guy from there. And Hawaii!! Oh no! Beautiful Hawaii!! I hope all is well on the Pacific Coast.

[Marigold2]

All the poor animals, how frightened they must be as they sense these things before it happens.

[Karen]

We're keeping everyone in our prayers, that those who need to have gotten safely to higher ground.

[Alysser]

The world seems like it plans on ending before 2012. What a tragedy

[wombat2u2004]

Everyone describes it as a truck or train rumbling by your house.
I just am stunned by a three minute earthquake.

Reading that sentence took 7 seconds?

sit down and take a timer to three minutes.

It's an eternity.

Mate, did you know, that you are sitting right over the San Andreas Fault ???
DO NOT !!! I say again DO NOT..... eat beans.

[RICHARD]

Mate, did you know, that you are sitting right over the San Andreas Fault ???
DO NOT !!! I say again DO NOT..... eat beans.

Trust me, If I do get buried in a quake?

Pray that I have had beans for my last meal, If no one comes to rescue me?
I can gas myself to death.

[wombat2u2004]

Trust me, If I do get buried in a quake?

Pray that I have had beans for my last meal, If no one comes to rescue me?
I can gas myself to death.

Hmmmm...never thought of that. That's gotta beat the oxygen running out

[RICHARD]

Hmmmm...never thought of that. That's gotta beat the oxygen running out

I'm being silly, but, that's just to settle my anxiety.

When I hear about a quake hitting a populated area/country?
I get flashbacks! I do not mean to trivialize by calling it a Post Traumatic Anything.

But, it's pretty durn close.