Today, an earthquake of scale 8.8 hit Chile, 1 1/2 months after the earthquake at Haiti struck. The Haiti earthquake which killed more than 200,000 people was only 7.0 on the richter scale! I thought that this year has been particularly disastorous, with only 2 months going, 2 devastating earthquakes struck. But in reality, earthquakes are actually quite common, i just found out that from 1st Jan - 26th Feb, a total of 67 earthquakes were recorded, that's not counting the tremors of each instance afterwards, for example the Haiti earthquake 15 more instances of quakes of varying scales were felt after the initial one.
After this latest earthquake in Chile, a tsunami warning has been raised for areas from Hawaii to the Phillippines to New Zealand. A total of 53 nations were given tsunami warning. Interestingly, the largest earthquake ever recorded happened around the same area in Chile, and it was in the scale of 9.5!!
After all this, now i realize that i really don't know too much about earthquakes. Initially i wanted to type about doomsday and what's happening to the world due to our excesses and such. A bit of treehugging. But in actuality, i'm ignorant! Must find out more when i have time.
That's all for now. Goodbye~~~
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