Hermes
2010-02-27 21:00:23 UTC
I have plotted charts for the epicenters of these two earthquakes,
based on data mainly from Wikipedia:
1647
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/NWnVgHpFQTgQ7_ySmHGebg?feat=directlink
2010
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/hMYDWSGsf9h9_qcKgH_hmQ?feat=directlink
Wikipedia link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_Chile
Date: 1647-05-13 / 2010-2-27
Time UTC: 19:30 / 03:34
Magnitude: 8.5 / 8.4
Epicenter: 35*S 72*W / 35*49S 72*40'W (both rel. near Santiago)
I have used the Gregorian Calendar for the 1647 earthquake:
* Spain adopted the [Gregorian Calendar] in 1582,
* and the Spanish territories in the New World rapidly
* followed Spain’s example.
-- https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Chile_History
I was aware of the 1647 earthquake because I had just given a few days
ago a booklet with a very short novel by Heinrich von Kleist about the
earthquake in 1647 to my father. (I had mentioned that short story
before on Usenet, after the tsunami in Asia, at a.a.t.)
[Kleist's short novel translated to English]
http://www.viceland.com/int/v15n12/htdocs/earthquake-in-chile-kleist-441.php
[Original text in German]
http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/?id=12&xid=1463&kapitel=1&cHash=bd3ee19d6a2
Anyway, I do not see much correlation between the charts, or am I
missing something? For all that it appears an earthquake has been "in
the air" recently...
)o+
based on data mainly from Wikipedia:
1647
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/NWnVgHpFQTgQ7_ySmHGebg?feat=directlink
2010
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/hMYDWSGsf9h9_qcKgH_hmQ?feat=directlink
Wikipedia link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_Chile
Date: 1647-05-13 / 2010-2-27
Time UTC: 19:30 / 03:34
Magnitude: 8.5 / 8.4
Epicenter: 35*S 72*W / 35*49S 72*40'W (both rel. near Santiago)
I have used the Gregorian Calendar for the 1647 earthquake:
* Spain adopted the [Gregorian Calendar] in 1582,
* and the Spanish territories in the New World rapidly
* followed Spain’s example.
-- https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Chile_History
I was aware of the 1647 earthquake because I had just given a few days
ago a booklet with a very short novel by Heinrich von Kleist about the
earthquake in 1647 to my father. (I had mentioned that short story
before on Usenet, after the tsunami in Asia, at a.a.t.)
[Kleist's short novel translated to English]
http://www.viceland.com/int/v15n12/htdocs/earthquake-in-chile-kleist-441.php
[Original text in German]
http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/?id=12&xid=1463&kapitel=1&cHash=bd3ee19d6a2
Anyway, I do not see much correlation between the charts, or am I
missing something? For all that it appears an earthquake has been "in
the air" recently...
)o+