Tsunami
 

I usually take the family to the beach for an early swim & breakfast at a local cafe each Sunday

Not this morning...

http://www.bom.gov.au/fwo/IDY68005.png

I hope Chile is doing OK today, Know there's many reported deaths already but I don't seem able to find more news

there is also a warning for hawaii. so far the waves have only gone 3 ft. high, but the first ones are always the smallest.

They just cancelled the tsunami warning here in Japan. Our Navy base is at the mouth of Tokyo Bay and so far eveything is normal albeit it's windy, cold, and rainy outside. So much for our weekend.

ANyway, I hope the Chileans are doing okay. I was just reading the news and geophysicists are saying that the Earth has been spawning more devastating eartquakes during the past 15 years or so compared to a relative time frame years ago.

If that's true, I guess I should revisit my plans on moving to SoCal when my boy truns 18 (~6 yrs). I'd rather not have my property turn into a floating island; getting supplies would be difficult without a boat.

Not to worry.
 

Not to worry BG. According the the Mayans the world will come to an end in 2012 anyway. Maybe this is the start to what is to come? 8.8 is the biggest quake ever recorded and the scenes are pretty devistating. You have to wonder who's next? They just cancelled the tsunami warning for Hawaii as well.

Jerry, I thought that Chile had a 9.5 1960...in fact IIRC the Sumatra 2004 was corrected to 9.2?

Beats me?
 

Beats me PBO, but the news is stating that the 8.8 is the highest ever recorded. If those were true actual recorded levels I would think that the news would be stating a comparison of some kind. I have never heard of those 9.??? before. If there were reported quakes higher shoot an email to the major news networks so they can fix their mistake.

Well, according to what I've read, the Mayan calendar simply ends on that date, but does not say "no need to go further since the world will be nonexistant past 2012".

Brian, just buy on the east side of the fault line and then you can have beach front property.........just like Lex Luther wanted.

According to the USGS there have been 3 quakes recorder higher than 8.8

5 yrs before my boy is 18. I was thinking SoCal or Cananada. Something with more liberal "medication" laws. Holland actually pays for a prostitute once a month for the handicapped. They recognize the need for relations.

You should break a leg and move to Holland!

Exactly, it is conspiracy theorists that have given 2012 'the end of the world' doomsday date. It is merely an age in the Mayan calender, which actually corresponds to alignments of our solar system with the Milky Way galaxy's 'plane'.

So, you can imagine all you want on what 'might' happen approaching this date, which is December 21st 2012, almost 3 years away.

Interesting, the 'license' for the monetary system/federal reserve in the USA ends on exactly this date as well... :oh: Or so I read.

My father is Dutch, I am half dutch; anyways, you can also have a "Cappuccino" at the local "Coffee Shops" in Amsterdam as well. :party:

While I think 12/21/2019 will pass just like any other day, I find the Mayan culture interesting. Interesting as in that they were one of the most sadistic and violent cultures yet had some amazing technology for the time span in which they existed. In fact I find the three major south American native cultures very interesting. If course their were many more but the Incas, Mayans, and Aztecs were obviously the largest, most powerful, and most advanced.

What if the original Mayans that made the Pyramids and also the Mayan calender were not the "Mayans" that were present when the Spanish conquistador went in? Same thing with the Egyptian Pyramids, like when did this civilization end suddenly? There is much controversy on that topic and what really happened. Perhaps there was an ancient 'world' civilization that had the technology to make the Pyramids, because we still can't build them today. Go figure. Think it's coincidence that there are pyramids all over the world? Perhaps. Perhaps not. There is alot of theory on it.

You're right, what we don't know about them is much greater than what we do. That's part of the fascination.