'enjoy' earth tremors?
"Southern Chile has this year enjoyed thousands of minor earth tremors, Reuters notes"
What kind of country 'enjoys' earth tremors?
The Chileans have rather carelessly mislaid an entire lake in the Magallanes region of Patagonia, Reuters reports. Before and after photos of Chile's missing lake. Photos: CONAF The body of water in question (seen here before and after) had a surface area of around 4 to 5 hectares (10-12 acres) or, if you prefer, roughly 10 …
Please, its football. Soccer is for English toffs circa 1920's. Its old, horribly elitist and more to the point is called football by the majority of association football supporters.
Case in point the same arseholes call Rugby "Rugger", they probably also call IT "ICT" (like to get a techie angle in somehow).
Well, certainly you don't enjoy having the earth move under your feet with a force strong enough to make hills go down, open cracks, tear down buildings and provoke massive waves in the ocean. Those are the kind of earthquakes we have had in Chile, including one in 1960 that is registered as the most powerful in recorded history (9.5). That earthquake generated waves 25 meters high, affected places 10 thousand kilometers away from its epicenter, killed uncountable numbers of persons and make entire villages vanish. This year one of those "thousand of minor earthquakes" indirectly killed about 15 people in the Aysen Fiord, by means of a giant wave caused by the fall of rocks.
So, you will understand that the disappearance of a minor lake is taken as a curiosity instead of great news.
Rodrigo
By Jim, "If you use before and after shots, shouldn't there be sufficient commonality to actually highlight the difference?"
The two mountains in the distance are the same ones.
In the before shot, the photo is taken from the surface of the lake, giving an unobstructed view of the more distant mountain.
With the lake gone, and no handy helicopter to hover at the former surface level of the lake, the second shot is taken from the lake bed, at a slightly different angle. It's clearly the same two mountains though...
The only other place in the world I can think of it being referred to as soccer (and even there I don't know if they do) would be Oz. If I started calling volleyball handball I wouldn't expect everyone else to call the French game "French handball" just to make it clear to me. Especially if I was in France.