"8.8" Magnitude Earthquake hits Chile

According to my TV, 78 people have been reported dead so far, and growing. I guess the main point of this thread is to tell all my fellows down in California to watch the news and make sure you don't have a ridiculous tsunami coming. Anyone in Hawaii should also watch out. (If anyone in Hawaii even goes on video game forums...) USGS reports (I assume that's United States Geological Survey) waves so far of up to 9 feet. Waves can rise or fall during the several hour trip through the Pacific. Apparently, since the richter scale is pretty much measured exponentially, the 8.8 earthquake would be about 500 times as strong as the earthquake in Haiti. That's probably wrong, to some large extent, but it's what my weatherguy is tellin' me.

First I thought "Oh god, Jeffs old review of Twilight Princess just hit Chile and they're pissed" 
But it was nothing nearly as funny.  
 
Everyone get to high grounds! 
Or get in the submarine.. something!

Crap... Well this sucks. Watch the 2012 people use this to further their agenda. Their pants are still wet after Haiti and now this will prompt them to spread their stupidity even more now. -_-' Hope everything turns out okay over there.

" Crap... Well this sucks. Watch the 2012 people use this to further their agenda. Their pants are still wet after Haiti and now this will prompt them to spread their stupidity even more now. -_-' Hope everything turns out okay over there. "

Where I live, we don't get earthquakes. We get brutally cold winters and in summer there are occasionally tornadoes.The thing with a tornado, see, is that you can see them coming. The sky turns black, and it was fucking hot all day. There are things you can do to prepare (get in the basement, not stay near glass, etc).
 
With earthquakes, there are no warning signs. That would freak the fuck out of me. 
 
Those poor families who lost their loved ones and homes. :(

"For some reason I've always wanted to see a tornado in person."  

" @FunExplosions said:

"For some reason I've always wanted to see a tornado in person."  

kind of difficult... they arent people "

" @FunExplosions said:

"For some reason I've always wanted to see a tornado in person."  

kind of difficult... they arent people "

I wonder what un-Godly behaviour the Chileans have done that the Christians will blame for it. 
 
We miss almost all those natural disasters in Australia.  The biggest tremor I have felt is probably only been about a 5.0 - minor shaking.   I hope destruction and death ism't on Haiti's scale.

" @CptChiken said:

" @FunExplosions said:

"For some reason I've always wanted to see a tornado in person."  

kind of difficult... they arent people "

Ohh. You're an idiot. You don't know what that expression means? Sorry, man. "

Three men walk into a bar in Chile it collaps- 

2012 is a comin' 
 
(Not Really) 
 
Poor Chilean's I hope they recover quick.

From what I can gather the epicenter was in quite a sparsely populated area, so the death toll hopefully wont be anywhere near as big as could of been possible. Only worry is big aftershocks, but the majority of Chile's tall buildings have shock absorbers so they should stay up.

Uh-oh. Could cause friction with the Bad Company 2 launch if death toll is too high since the game features some Chilean maps.

Reports claim a 40 meter(131ft) wave hit Juan Fernandez island.
 
If that's an accurate report then holy fucking shit.

" From what I can gather the epicenter was in quite a sparsely populated area, so the death toll hopefully wont be anywhere near as big as could of been possible. Only worry is big aftershocks, but the majority of Chile's tall buildings have shock absorbers so they should stay up. "

8.8? Daaammn that's a powerful quake.

Mother Nature has been extremely pissed off this year. Two major earthquakes and a fucking blizzard. And Febuary isn't even over!

" Reports claim a 40 meter(131ft) wave hit Juan Fernandez island.  If that's an accurate report then holy fucking shit. "

Any time I see the number 8.8, the first thing I think about is Jeff's Twilight Princess review.

Japan, New Zealand, Australia, and Hawaii are on Tsunami alert.    

Here in Argentina (a neighbour country of Chile) it was felt very hard till the middle of the country and we even had our own 4 magnitude earthquake in the north at the same time, but the epicentre was located in a uninhabited zone and it was very superficial. What the hell is going on, so many earthquakes in the last months (none of them nearly as devastating as Haiti's luckyly)

i hope people get to high ground- and fast.

Damn, this is the first I heard about this tragedy.  Looks like more bad tiding for those in the path of the tsunami and then there are the expected aftershock for the Chileans, as well.   
 
Repent, the end is nigh...

say goodbye to hawaii :(

people need to keep trashing this planet and maybe one day we'll get a 10.0

***Tsunami Warning for the City of Sausalito, Saturday, February 27, 2010 at approx 1:30 PM***

While Chile is a much better-off country than Haiti, the death toll is still tragic

" First I thought "Oh god, Jeffs old review of Twilight Princess just hit Chile and they're pissed" But it was nothing nearly as funny.   Everyone get to high grounds! Or get in the submarine.. something! "

im not racist... racism is a crime and crime is for tornados "

This is just going to make me paranoid about the California earthquake everyone has been predicting.

That's pretty big. Not sure where that is, but it really doesn't matter. I wouldn't want to be near that thing.

"First I thought "Oh god, Jeffs old review of Twilight Princess just hit Chile and they're pissed" But it was nothing nearly as funny.   Everyone get to high grounds! Or get in the submarine.. something! "

Im waiting for the Haiti like jokes to come in for Chile

Apparently, staffer GMan has family there. Hope they are okay.

Quite tragic, and sad. The U.S. is sure to step into this one in trying to help Chile.

" @Unchained: For some reason I've always wanted to see a tornado in person. I know it's a stupid wish, but I know it would be something truly awesome. ...That may be an asshole thing to say, for anyone who has had tornado trouble. "

Stupid 2012 theories!

" @CptChiken said:

" @FunExplosions said:

"For some reason I've always wanted to see a tornado in person."  

kind of difficult... they arent people "

Racist!!! :o "

Well...here in Honolulu the tsunami was pretty boring. Now I've lived through an earthquake, waterspout, tsunami and hurricane!