pronounced CHILL-"A" by Southern Califo-nian Hispanic news persons.
Are we weary of disasters both internal and external or what?
Their disaster was badly timed. I guess they will suffer the more, for it.
Y'think?
Moi
Riverwind (imported) wrote: Tue Mar 02, 2010 8:19 am I did notice one thing, the earthquake in Haiti was 7.0 and leveled the place, killed over a hundred thousand, the quake in Chili was 8.8 and the death toll is up to 700, this is the difference between a county that has some money and builds for earthquakes and one that is very poor and does not. The earthquake destroyed the city and they will need to rebuild it but the people lived through the worst earthquake in recorded history.
Wed is payday so I guess I will give some money to Chili, I may need to send some to Haiti too.
moi621 (imported) wrote: Tue Mar 02, 2010 5:51 pm Chile's big export is farmed Salmon.
Haiti has Barbancort Rum, nothing less the 5 star of course.
River, treat yourself to a healthy Salmon dinner and Rum, although you do not like Rum do it for Haiti. Support their economies.
Isn't that better then just throwing money at them?
Salmon and Rum.
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Riverwind (imported) wrote: Tue Mar 02, 2010 8:19 am I did notice one thing, the earthquake in Haiti was 7.0 and leveled the place, killed over a hundred thousand, the quake in Chili was 8.8 and the death toll is up to 700, this is the difference between a county that has some money and builds for earthquakes and one that is very poor and does not. The earthquake destroyed the city and they will need to rebuild it but the people lived through the worst earthquake in recorded history.
Wed is payday so I guess I will give some money to Chili, I may need to send some to Haiti too.
gareth19 (imported) wrote: Tue Mar 02, 2010 8:58 pm Worst is a subjective term, but the most intense earthquake in recorded history was the earthquake in Valdivia, Chile in 1960 which seismographs measured at 9.5. The Lisbon earthquake was probably the largest loss of life, reckoned by some as as many as 500,000 dead.
Let's be thankful that like the New Madrid quakes of 1811-1812, a series each around magnitude 8.1, that struck Missouri and affected a region of about 50,000 square miles, the epicenter of the Concepion earthquake was sparsely inhabited.