The Valdivia Earthquake

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🗓️ 12 December 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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The 1960 Valdivia earthquake (Spanish: Terremoto de Valdivia) or Great Chilean earthquake (Gran terremoto de Chile) of 22 May is the most powerful earthquake ever recorded. Various studies have placed it at 9.4–9.6 on the moment magnitude scale. It occurred in the afternoon (19:11 GMT, 15:11 local time), and lasted approximately 10 minutes. The resulting tsunami affected southern Chile, Hawaii, Japan, the Philippines, eastern New Zealand, southeast Australia and the Aleutian Islands.

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0:00.0	Okay, but what kind of sick fuck wants you to roast his dog though? That's messed up.
0:05.4	Wait, they were just doing it for fun. It's a goddamn golden retriever. That's not a joke. Fuck you.
0:09.8	Absolutely not. It's just a, it's just a, it's just a, I know stab you. It's a golden retriever.
0:13.9	Just let it go.
0:15.9	Hey guys.
0:17.4	Oh, oh, I am gonna fucking kill you for this this time. I, I literally have nothing to sit like I have no lines.
0:25.4	Oh, my god, I'm real dog collection. What do you do?
0:28.8	Uh, all right, I'm gonna get this one and try.
0:32.0	Why is the studio filled with?
0:34.4	Is that fondue? I guess, velvita.
0:37.2	It's the velvita disaster today.
0:40.0	Oh, the velvita disaster.
0:42.0	Yeah.
0:43.0	With the tankership crashed into that off-shared drilling platform in the Gulf and spilled 1.2 million barrels of velvita into the ocean.
0:52.2	Eli, you're conflating four different disasters. What of what you made up?
0:56.8	You drowned anabelle. Not anabelle. Speak to me. Mother fuck.
1:00.3	Dude, we're doing the 1960 Valdivia earthquake today.
1:04.7	Huh.
1:05.4	It was the largest earthquake and recorded.
1:08.4	Right? It isn't it crazy that after the tanker full of velvita hit that rig and spilled, there was an earthquake?
1:14.7	Like, that was a day.
1:15.9	Huh?
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