7.8 earthquake hits Chile on top of 8.2 yesterday

It was just reported on CNN news on TV that a second huge quake has hit Chile as sort of a "Super Aftershock" likely. Since anything above about 6.0 tends to start killing people and even since the rockslide in the 5.1 in La Habra in the Orange County area near Los Angeles turned a car upside down, this is a really big earthquake.

For example, the biggest quake I ever survived was the San Fernando Earthquake in 1971:

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Though this was only a 6.6 earthquake it was an upward thrust earthquake rather than a sideways earthquake and so does incredible damage and really scares the hell out of people and or kills them. 

 

Though I was at least 100 miles from this quake when it hit I thought I was going to die because it started and seemed to go on forever. I bounced around on the bed rather than be thrown against the wall anymore and watched literally everything fall off the walls and bounce around the room. However, for some reason none of the windows in the house broke. However, it felt like a nuclear blast was going on because it never seemed to stop and so I thought for sure I was going to die in this one.

 

So, I really feel for anyone that was anywhere within about 200 miles of that quake because if they survived it it was a very scary experience that they will never forget and almost as strong as the 8.2 yesterday.