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This is one of many reasons I love GC- I get big news faster here than elsewhere.
This is absolutely incredible, especially after Japan's earthquake. Huge. Every guide & cabbie we had when we were in Santiago said they get at least one earthquake a day, you just can't feel them all due to the intensity and/or depth. They- and Japan- are certainly more acustomed to earthquakes and prepared for them than Haiti, but 8.8 is huge. Three big quakes in what, a month? The PNW is way overdue for a big one. Hopefully this wasn't the start of a Ring of Fire trend.
Just turned on my local news- WA has a tsunami warning in effect but theydont expect it to be very large here at this point.
CNN is drawing how Hawaii could be effected. Go CNN for visuals. Oh, they say tsunami warning for Oregon too.
ETA: just remembered another recent Ring of Fire quake- Peru in late January. It was much smaller(5 something- substantial but not devastating), but still. That's lots of earthquakes in a short time peried.
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