A massive earthquake of 8.8 has rocked Chile, killing at least 147 in the immediate aftermath.

The capital Santiago has lost electricity and phone lines, and a further threat of Tsunami's for Australia (ocean surges expected in a couple of hours right where I am) and other pacific nations are currently on warning.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=1018249 for the Chile Earthquake

and for those who read this within and hour or so of me posting this, here is Queensland's Tsunami alert (its not a full scale warning) - http://www.bom.gov.au/tsunami/qld_alerts.shtml

Hopefully we will not hear of any major Tsunami's, and we can only prey that we don't see the repeated devistation of Haiti and Port Au Prince on our TV's once again.

Just watching the news on sky news channel 501 currently live from hawaii sea looks beautiful shame its possibly about to cause destruction

loads of people stood on the cliff tops to me it dont look that high why people would want to be near it whether it does happen or not still a huge risk.

currently saying tsunami expected shortly was expected at 21.19 GMT


Fingers crossed it dont happen

From http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Chile-Earthquake-Measuring-88-On-The-Richter-Scale-Hits-Concepcion-And-Capital-Santiago/Article/201002415561008?lpos=World_News_Carousel_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15561008_Chile%3A_Earthquake_Measuring_8.8_On_The_Richter_Scale%2C_Hits_Concepcion_And_Capital_Santiago

"More than 210 people have been killed after a huge earthquake struck the Chilean coast, which triggered tsunami waves and sparked warnings for 53 countries."

"Tsunami warnings were issued for South American nations as well as Australia, Japan, the Philippines, Russia and many Pacific islands."


Predicted times for when tsunami could hit (Australia in bottom left corner)

Full Story at the link

From CNN

"Hawaii "dodged a bullet" today after a quake-triggered tsunami hit the islands with smaller-than-expected waves, an official said. A quake off Chile caused the tsunami."

Oh yeah i heard about this on the news today, i dont think the tsunami hit hawaii yet... not watching news anymore.

40cm surges have hit Norfolk Island (small island off Australia).

The current warning from the Tsunami Centre is that people should not enter the ocean, at all costs as there will be a rise in sea levels over the next few hours in Australia, and "possibly into Monday" (its Sunday morning here right now).

So they are not expecting large waves, just a VERY strong current in and out and for the next day or so.

thats a real sad story about that earth quake in chile and you put something about your washing machine ? be serious mate please


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Major Tsunami warnings issued in Japan.

http://www.jma.go.jp/en/tsunami/

Reading a new article, Japan has gone into a state of panic, although residents are 'remaining calm'

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/1018390/Japan-orders-evacuate-tsunami

Lets hope for the best in disaster prone Japan.

An earthquake in 1960 around Chile, measuring 9.5 caused a major Tsunami in Japan, killing over 100 people - so while Australia's threat is easing off, Japan is on edge.

i swear... arent the waves like the sizes of apartment buildings? :S

They can be as we saw in 2005 was it on boxing day where a tsunami hit in indonesia i think it was.

hawaii an other towns countrys an cities have been lucky so far lets hope it stays nice an calm an doesnt cause any destruction not after the earthquake

Japan has been nearly untouched, as the major threat passes. The largest wave was 1.2m. But with recent Tsunami's around the South Pacific and incidents in Japan with Tsunami's, I dont blame the Japanese for giving out major warnings, even with the national broadcaster NHK going into "Emergency Mode".

Australia has been cleared of any further Tsunami threat, only the warning of very strong ocean currents in the Tasman Sea (sea that lies between Australia and New Zealand).

Lets hope that Chile can bounce back from this disaster, and lets prey that we don't see the devistation that we saw in Haiti.