Chilean Tsunami Animation

Courtesy: Professor Nobuo Shuto of the Disaster Control Research Center, Tohoku University, Japan

Retrieved from http://serc.carleton.edu

Here is an animation of a 1960 earthquake of the coast of Chile in a very similar area to today's quake.

On May 22, 1960, at 19:11 GMT, an earthquake occurred off the coast of South Central Chile. A Pacific-wide tsunami was triggered by the earthquake, which had a surface-wave magnitude of 8.6, an epicenter of 39.5° S, 74.5° W, and a focal depth of 33 km. The number of fatalities associated with both the tsunami and the earthquake has been estimated to be between 490 to 2,290. Damage cost estimates were over a half billion dollars.

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[beedubs]

Wow japan got fucked up

[149chris]

@beedubs sucks 1 year later your correct lol

[thubellakalinda]

se escribe Chile

[faeryjoan]

similiar? the difference is...why didnt the japnese 2011 tsunami go the other way? - to the east - like chile earthquake / tsunmai 1960 went to the west. another 'just the earth doing its thing'? (which it does and has to ) or more likely and talked about 'manufactured earthquake'..like the thai quake..the haiti quake.

[MAGOYA100]

no zafo ningun pais del pacifico

[allenslayer]

this is too much

[Vanletterbomb]

@beedubs now japan replied to chile

[LordApocalypsys]

que orgullo que goku y vegeta peliaran en mi pais en los años 60

[ChicaTheLadybug]

Thanks for posting. Very educational. Before 2004, I had no idea of what a tsunami could do.