I am Karan from Olympia, WA.
Almost every other name used here is a pseodonym pseudonim pseudonymn alias.
The rest of it is true - mostly - and all of it is my own.
Don't even think about taking any of it, unless of course, you want to pay me.
Random Wisdom: I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. - Thomas Jefferson
The counter says that 2846377 have been flummelized, but I personally think it's all a big lie.
Remember when I was writing about how I get USGS notifications of earthquakes? Remember when I reported that I didn’t want to move to the west coast of South America? Today, I’m glad we didn’t ignore my trepidation and hook up the old U-Haul.
Chile’s 8.8 quake is 500 times more energy released than the 7.0 quake that shook apart Haiti. It is about twice the depth of the Haitian earthquake which is a good thing...but on a scale of <0 to 10, 8.8 is a mighty shake. The tsunami warnings are all over the Pacific Ocean, even here in Washington we have a tsunami advisory, on the ocean coast and in Puget Sound. (see the difference between a tsunami warning and a tsunami advisory)
Today my earthquake obsession peaked when I opened my email inbox:
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Do you see that? At 9:25am Pacific time, in the about 9 hours since the 8.8 quake, Chile has had twelve 5.5 or greater aftershocks. (I don’t see notifications for <5.5) Those aftershocks are frightening in their magnitude...and I’m sure those people are at best getting tired of the shaking.
