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| Major Earthquake hits Peru Large quake jolts Peru; tsunami warning issued 7.5-magnitude temblor reportedly causes power outages, shakes Lima BREAKING NEWS MSNBC News Services Updated: 9 minutes ago LIMA, Peru - A powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake shook the central coast of Peru Wednesday evening, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued a tsunami warning for Peru, Chile, Ecuador and Colombia. The earthquake struck about 90 miles southeast of the capital of Lima, according to the Web site of the USGS. There were no immediate reports of injuries. An Associated Press photographer reported some homes had collapsed in the center of the city and that many people had fled into the streets for safety. Another AP reporter said the quake shook the city for more than a minute. Callers to Radio Programas, Peru's main news station, said parts of several cities in southern Peru had been hit with blackouts. Holy crap, I used to live in that area and I still family there. __________________ Danny We're closer than the average man and wife. That's why our matching bracelets say Turk and J.D. You know I'll stick by you for the rest of my life. You're the only man who's ever been inside of me! | |||
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| Master Fan Joined: Sep 2001
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| CNN is reporting that a tsunami advisory is out for Hawaii. Hope your family is okay JD Bluth! __________________ Visit the 90's Board!  | |||
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| Addicted Fan Joined: Aug 2001
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| I live in Hawaii and the advisory was just cancelled so we're fine. We're having more problems with an out of control brush fire than hurricanes or tsunamis. However that earthquake looks like it did some damge. I hope the death toll doesn't go very high. __________________ The Committee To Re-elect President Obama: Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Ron Paul | |||
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| My sister's boyfriend and his family are all from Lima and the surrounding area. The boyfriend's actually at our house right now, but needless to say, it's going to be tense until he's able to contact his family. They keep showing the statistics from the 1970 earthquake and drawing comparisons between the two since they were fairly similar in size but... I don't know. It seems like it's going to cause more panic than anything, since a huge part of the reason that one was so deadly (death toll reports tend to fall somewhere between 45K and 66K) is because it basically made the side of a mountain collapse and an avalanche buried two towns, and three more were totally destroyed. It doesn't appear that anything like that happened here, which is obviously a good sign. __________________ Summer Wenn man füreinander bestimmt ist, kann die Welt untergehen – aber man ist wenigstens zu zweit. Lieber gemeinsam ertrinken, als alleine verbrennen. | |||
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| Master Fan  Joined: Jan 2002
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| JD Bluth, can you add a link back to the source of that article? Thanks  __________________ (i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses) e. e. cummings - somewhere i have never traveled | |||
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| Addicted Fan  Joined: May 2005
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| I think that this is awful. So many people have died from this. __________________ April Icon by zabexelith @ lj Will: Money can't buy you love but money can buy you stuff and I LOVE STUFF! | |||
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| Horrible news. __________________ Maria avatar by Lostgirly | |||
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| Passionate Fan  Joined: Dec 2000
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| So horrible how many people died and were left homeless. Anyone know of any legitimate programs I could donate money to? __________________ “Yes…it was so predictability unpredictable, that it was unpredictably predictable. ” | |||
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| Master Fan  Joined: Nov 2006
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| My mum's family all lives in Lima thank God but this was a tragedy. My mum kept talking to her family on the phone all day..comparisons to the '70 quake were made as well.. __________________ | |||
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