| hopeful prayers and wishes for Chile |
8.8 Earthquake in Chile. Santiago (where Iz lives is not to far away from the epicenter. Prayers and help will be needed....Iz hope you ok my friend.
This is supposed to send a huge Tsunami to different parts of the world.
This is supposed to send a huge Tsunami to different parts of the world.
yup, my first thought too...
I just heard about this on the news this morning! holy cow! I hope iz is ok and also all of the other people and members living there!
I hope everyoens ok. check in soon iz!
I hope everyoens ok. check in soon iz!
| re: hopeful prayers and wishes for Chile |
toastedgoat wrote…
8.8 Earthquake in Chile. Santiago (where Iz lives is not to far away from the epicenter. Prayers and help will be needed....Iz hope you ok my friend.
This is supposed to send a huge Tsunami to different parts of the world.
Our Prayers and wishes
hoping Iz and all his family and friends ok.......
and all who have been affected
Im sure much pain and worse has been caused by this event.....to many
John
This whole situation is very worrisome to me.
I really hope Iz, and the people affected by this earthquake are alright.
I really hope Iz, and the people affected by this earthquake are alright.
Iszil wrote…
I finally got my phone/mobile/internet service back.
It's a huge mess here in Chile. This is the 5th most powerful earthquake in the history of the world.
Hopefully for us, the epicenter wasn't near Santiago, the capital and biggest city here, but it was in the second most important city in Chile, Concepción, that's about 700 kms away on the south, but anyway we could feel it really strong here (where I live is about 40 kms south from Santiago.
For you to make an idea, we have to different words for when the land quakes: one is like a minor earthquake which is any quake below 7 Rigster degrees and any quake over 7 degrees it's a major earthquake. We are used to minor quakes every now and then but a major one usually occurs every 15-20 years. The one we had now was of 8.8 degrees (the biggest ever in the world was of 9.5, in Valdivia, Chile) so you can imagine this a huge disaster. In Santiago it was about 7.5 degrees.
It was quite "fun" how it got me. I was paying drums while the bassist of my band was playing "Us and Them" on the guitar, all this in the house we use for our music sessions. Suddenly a friend said "hey, it's quaking". We stopped playing, I stood up, and after about 10 seconds we realized this was big we got out of the house, and we could feel like we were surfing on the porch.
Well, thank you for worrying.
What's all the world saying about this, by the way?
> Iszil
From my previous post
Iszil wrote…
Iszil wrote…
I finally got my phone/mobile/internet service back.
It's a huge mess here in Chile. This is the 5th most powerful earthquake in the history of the world.
Hopefully for us, the epicenter wasn't near Santiago, the capital and biggest city here, but it was in the second most important city in Chile, Concepción, that's about 700 kms away on the south, but anyway we could feel it really strong here (where I live is about 40 kms south from Santiago.
For you to make an idea, we have to different words for when the land quakes: one is like a minor earthquake which is any quake below 7 Rigster degrees and any quake over 7 degrees it's a major earthquake. We are used to minor quakes every now and then but a major one usually occurs every 15-20 years. The one we had now was of 8.8 degrees (the biggest ever in the world was of 9.5, in Valdivia, Chile) so you can imagine this a huge disaster. In Santiago it was about 7.5 degrees.
It was quite "fun" how it got me. I was paying drums while the bassist of my band was playing "Us and Them" on the guitar, all this in the house we use for our music sessions. Suddenly a friend said "hey, it's quaking". We stopped playing, I stood up, and after about 10 seconds we realized this was big we got out of the house, and we could feel like we were surfing on the porch.
Well, thank you for worrying.
What's all the world saying about this, by the way?
> Iszil
From my previous post
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Surfing on the porch...what an incredible thing to have experienced.
Very glad your back on line, so your house and around where you live are all still 'standing'?
I've heard the same thing, that you guys were much better prepared for quakes than Haiti.
All the best over there getting things back on track.
Very glad your back on line, so your house and around where you live are all still 'standing'?
I've heard the same thing, that you guys were much better prepared for quakes than Haiti.
All the best over there getting things back on track.
Yeah, we have a kind of "quakes culture".
I must say, although we are supposed to build structures to resist this earthquakes, there were a few new building that just collapsed. After the earthquake in the year 1985 there's a regulation that says that any construction must be made to stand after an event like this but yet we can see many people dead for that. There will be a bunch of engineers lynched for this cause.
My house didn't suffer any damage at all. Few things just felt down, but nothing big.
> Iszil
I must say, although we are supposed to build structures to resist this earthquakes, there were a few new building that just collapsed. After the earthquake in the year 1985 there's a regulation that says that any construction must be made to stand after an event like this but yet we can see many people dead for that. There will be a bunch of engineers lynched for this cause.
My house didn't suffer any damage at all. Few things just felt down, but nothing big.
> Iszil
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