Chile Quake: Tsunami warning system worked as intended
The Chile quake that struck Saturday and activated a tsunami that traveled throughout the Pacific basin has tested the region's tsunami-warning network in decades.
By several measures, the region-wide warning effort was a success, though in retrospect evacuations in many places far from the Chilean coast appear to have been excessive given the size of the surge that ultimately arrived.
The state emergency officials have reported that they have put the size of coming waves at between 6 and 10 feet. The waves that did arrive were less than 3 feet tall.
