8.0 earthquake strikes northern Chile

Scary stuff. Personally my wife and I have decided it's time to get serious about creating a disaster kit. The "big one" could hit any time.

Hope nobody was hurt in Chile or South America.

Here's a site where you can monitor the sea level live: http://www.ioc-sealevelmonitoring.org/station.php?code=pisa (as long as the site is up. Multiple measuring stations available there)

For now the highest is 2 meters. If the site is not working, here's a screenshot from right after it began: https://twitter.com/severestudios/status/451151233739288576 After that it went wildly up and down.

Keep in mind that a tsunami can have wildly different heights and properties in different places.

It's been updated to 8.2. No casualties reported so far.

And, actually, a bigger one it's expected in the zone, the "big event".

I am from Chile... live on Santiago though, far away (2+ thousand KM) from the North.

AFAIK there have been no casualties. People have been evacuated from the coastal areas all over Chile (even in the south for precaution).

Cheers.

I'm Chilean and I live in a "problematic" area. Fortunately it was not that hard. We're kind of prepared (of course, with nature, nobody is actually prepared for something like this) and the Government and the people are already evacuating those areas.

The sad part? A lot of people is evacuating using cars, and streets doesn't gave so much space to handle all that traffic. Internet and Mobile networks are still working and that helped to reach to almost anyone.

ONEMI, which is the emergency organism here, already published the expected hour the waves will arrive to those problematic areas, so some cities have plenty of time to evacuate.