Have you been following the news of the earthquake that happened in Chile this morning? The earthquake was a magnitude of 8.8 (Haiti was a 7.0). According to ABC News, the Chile quake was 64 times more powerful than the one that hit Haiti one month ago. Click here to read more about the Chile earthquake.
To follow up this event, tsunami warnings have been posted for Hawaii, and it appears as though a tsunami (tidal wave) is definitely going to hit Hawaii within the next hour or so. I find it amazing that an event in South America could effect Hawaii. That's over 6,000 miles away! (See map below.) Even more amazing is that they are able to track and predict that a tsunami is about to hit Hawaii. They have even predicted the earliest possible minute that the tsunami could hit, which is 4:05 pm ET.
Continue to follow the events in Chile and Hawaii as they occur.
Saturday, February 27, 2010
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That was sad. when i heard about that i thought to myself " people in haiti need a lot of help but now people in Chili and Hawaii need help too". that morning my Aunt Nikkie wanted to take my 2 cousins and i to the mall and on the way there i said that i should ask Mr. Woodley if we could have a community club for 7th and 8th grade. i thought that we could have foundraisers all the time and help people in need of vital resources to survive. we could donate 1/2 of it to the people in haiti, hawaii, and chili, 1/4 to foundations like the march of dimes and the rest for the school. We could help keep the communtiy clean by helping get people to recycle and maybe clean up at local parks like the complex. This is only my opinion but i think it is a good idea. sorry that i wrote so much again. i need to make these blogs a lot shorter. = ]
ReplyDeleteI like what she said about the found raiser because that would be good to help the people in need because thats very sad to see people with nothing and if I was rich then I would donate money to them and help because that would be doing a good deed and that would make me feel good about myself and more confindent. (=
ReplyDeleteI think chillie got hit lighter than haiti damedge wise. First i think that haiti was sufering alot of damege becasue alot of people got killed hurt and injured. Chillie in my opion got hit lighter becasue it was along the cost and not that many people were there. Also most people in Chillie live in the city not along the coast but they got hit with a huge titial wave. That is why in my opion Haiti got hit harder than Chillie
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