[QUOTE][B] A massive earthquake of 8.3 magnitude has struck central Chile.[/B]

The epicentre was 91km (56 miles) north-east of the city of Concepcion and 317km south-west of the capital, Santiago.

The US Geological Survey (USGS) said the earthquake struck at 0634 GMT at a depth of about 59.4km. There is no information yet on any casualties.

The US government said a tsunami warning had been issued for Chile, Peru and Ecuador.

Buildings in Santiago were reported to have shaken for between 10 and 30 seconds, with the loss of electricity in some parts of the capital.

Telephone lines and internet connections appear to have been damaged.[/QUOTE]

[URL]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8540289.stm[/URL]

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At least 46 deads Via: El País news

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an a tsunami warning for asia

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difficult to imagine, that is a super massive quake :shock:

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Japan quake yesterday and a quake today in Chile :shock: now Tsunami warning all over the Pacific and parts of South America wow wow this is insane. Twitter and Buzz is going insane :shock:

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damn global warming causing earthquakes.

seriously though 8.8 is a monster of a quake

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Chile / peru / ecuador / colombia / antarctica / panama / costa rica / nicaragua / pitcairn / honduras / el salvador / guatemala / fr. Polynesia / mexico / cook islands / kiribati / kermadec is / niue / new zealand / tonga / american samoa / samoa / jarvis is. / wallis-futuna / tokelau / fiji / australia / hawaii / palmyra is. / tuvalu / vanuatu / howland-baker / new caledonia / johnston is. / solomon is. / nauru / marshall is. / midway is. / kosrae / papua new guinea / pohnpei / wake is. / chuuk / russia / marcus is. / indonesia / n. Marianas / guam / yap / belau / japan / philippines / chinese taipei

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I just read , a big tsunami wave is traveling 500 miles per hour to hawaii .

122 confirmed dead

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6' waves hit the french polynesian

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OMG this is so crazy and scary!! Anyone in any of those areas, please stay safe!

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realized soon after my first post my cousin who lives in Canada is in Chile right now with her husband and their kids (for his work) ....

...thank god they were about 1,000 k's from the quake, but were still woken up by it...

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It's even hitting us. :shock:

[url]http://www.theage.com.au/national/get-out-of-the-water-20100228-paju.html[/url]

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@Reuters: Tsunami warning for Hawaii is lifted [url]http://link.reuters.com/heq82j[/url]

Love twitter

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Las cifras oficiales: 214 muertos, 15 desaparecidos y dos millones de damnificados

Official numbers: 214 deads, 15 missings and 2 millions victims

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:(

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This is awful seeing these things happening all around the world :(

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Geez could feel this on where i am.. First time in a life.. Scary

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Animation of the wave pattern from the Chilean quake -

[URL]http://nctr.pmel.noaa.gov/chile20100227/20100227Chile.mov[/URL]