holy wow - 8.8 in Chile

[bluepapercup]

There was an 8.8 off the coast of Chile a few hours ago, followed by a 6.9 aftershock. Undoubtedly there will be more aftershocks to come.

News article here.

Link to USGS South American Map here.

Details for the 8.8 hereI was in Santiago a few winters ago - very hard to look at the images of all the damage. I sincerely hope the death toll

Comments

[petite_mewsette]

Whoa! Thanks for the update... My prayers are with them.

[horse_bunny]

And I saw a 6.9 hit Japan this morning too??

[zelos22]

saw this post right after i saw a friend in Hawaii post in her journal saying she has a tsunami warning. now i know why. whoa

eta: and now i remember earlier this week my mom said there was going to be a big quake soon o_O wtf

[hatchling]

dang!

I know how you feel- I was in Port-au-Prince a year ago and it's super hard to think about all the devastation. Here's to hoping.

[basal_surge]

Spent several years there in the nineties. Looks from the few photos out yet that there's been major damage among the older buildings in Santiago.

Here in NZ we're just about to get hit by the Tsunami in the next half hour or so. French Polynesia just got 2 metres.