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7.5 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Sumatra, Indonesia: Tsunami Warning Issued
USGS ^
| 20 Feb 2008
| US GS
Posted on 02/20/2008 12:39:26 AM PST by Alter Kaker
Earthquake
TOPICS: Breaking News
KEYWORDS: bushfault; earthquake; indonesia; quake; thailand; tsunami
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To: Alter Kaker
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posted on
02/20/2008 12:41:37 AM PST
by
South40
(Amnesty is a slap in the face to the USBP!)
To: Alter Kaker
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posted on
02/20/2008 12:41:46 AM PST
by
flaglady47
(Algore: send global warming to Chicago area; will pay any carbon tax - desperate)
To: Alter Kaker
UH, OH. Prayers up. There will be many casualties, I fear.
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posted on
02/20/2008 12:43:43 AM PST
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: Alter Kaker
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posted on
02/20/2008 12:44:05 AM PST
by
raygun
(24.14% of the Voting Age Population elected Slick (The Cigar) Willey to a second term.)
To: flaglady47
The last time this happened, in almost exactly the same place, 225,000 people died.
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posted on
02/20/2008 12:45:43 AM PST
by
Alter Kaker
(Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
To: Alter Kaker
Strong Quake Hits IndonesiaThis is the first linked report besides the USGS. Prayers for safety, for the people in harm's way. That was a BIG one!
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posted on
02/20/2008 12:47:08 AM PST
by
yorkie
To: Alter Kaker
WoW! That’s another big one!
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posted on
02/20/2008 12:47:22 AM PST
by
NRA2BFree
("The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves!")
To: NRA2BFree
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posted on
02/20/2008 12:49:46 AM PST
by
raygun
(24.14% of the Voting Age Population elected Slick (The Cigar) Willey to a second term.)
To: NRA2BFree
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posted on
02/20/2008 12:49:51 AM PST
by
Jet Jaguar
(Who would the terrorists vote for?)
To: Alter Kaker
The last time this happened, in almost exactly the same place, 225,000 people died. While this is worrisome, and of course often quake magnitude estimates go up with time, let's remember that the Tsunami causing quake of 2004 was of much higher magnitude - a high 8 or even 9, if I remember correctly.
Still, though, all should heed the Tsunami warning!
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posted on
02/20/2008 12:51:43 AM PST
by
Yossarian
(Everyday, somewhere on the globe, somebody is pushing the frontier of stupidity...)
To: Alter Kaker
“The last time this happened, in almost exactly the same place, 225,000 people died.”
You know, I just can’t work it up anymore. This area has one earthquake after another. It’s just a fact of life (or death) for that part of the world. I feel sorry for them, but there is absolutely nothing one can do to change Mother Nature and what she puts forth. This time let the other parts of the world closer to them foot the bill for relief rather than us. I’m tired of sending aid to primarily Muslim countries that will just go back to hating our guts after getting our aid. Let Saudi Arabia, etc. provide the relief.
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posted on
02/20/2008 12:58:26 AM PST
by
flaglady47
(Algore: send global warming to Chicago area; will pay any carbon tax - desperate)
To: Yossarian
“correlation can not be confered to causation’
What do I know. I’m just a VERY junior college guy.
Junior college equals VERY bad intellect.
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posted on
02/20/2008 12:58:44 AM PST
by
raygun
(24.14% of the Voting Age Population elected Slick (The Cigar) Willey to a second term.)
To: Alter Kaker
>>The last time this happened, in almost exactly the same place, 225,000 people died.<<
Not to minimze the risk - any Tsunami is a Tsunami I would not want to be in...
But if I’m doing the math right, a Magnitude 9 quake like last time is 32 times as big a quake with 100 times as much energy as a 7.5 magnitude like the preliminary reading on this one.
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posted on
02/20/2008 12:59:30 AM PST
by
gondramB
(Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.)
To: Yossarian
The energy release of an earthquake scales with the 3/2 power of the shaking amplitude, and thus a difference in magnitude of 1.0 is equivalent to a factor of 31.6 in the energy released; a difference of magnitude of 2.0 is equivalent to a factor of 1000 in the energy released.
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posted on
02/20/2008 1:00:14 AM PST
by
Rome2000
(Peace is not an option)
To: Rome2000
So? Are you trying to tell us somthing? If you are, what the hell could you possibly be trying to tell us?
Nobody listens to me. What makes you think that you may be different? Ego? Perhaps you went to a MAJOR college, eh?
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posted on
02/20/2008 1:18:34 AM PST
by
raygun
(24.14% of the Voting Age Population elected Slick (The Cigar) Willey to a second term.)
To: Alter Kaker
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posted on
02/20/2008 1:25:08 AM PST
by
raygun
(24.14% of the Voting Age Population elected Slick (The Cigar) Willey to a second term.)
To: Rome2000
The amazing forces of nature.
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posted on
02/20/2008 1:34:50 AM PST
by
Westlander
(Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
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To: raygun
>>Nobody listens to me. What makes you think that you may be different?<<
He’s one up on you because he used numbers and he beat me with more decimal places... :(
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posted on
02/20/2008 1:47:23 AM PST
by
gondramB
(Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.)
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