Posted on 09/21/2004 5:35:33 AM PDT by Truth666
Google found Tortuga?
Translation: All your turtle are belong to us.
Is a sunken island technically considered missing, or is it just plain gone?
;^)
Wow! Great site!
You can just call me "Red Grace Rackham" from now on!
I would vote "gone," unless the Corps of Engineers comes and builds it back up, at great expenditure of our tax dollars ... but that's not likely to happen in Haiti.
I didn't take it.
Wonder where it went?
"It was not clear if any lives were lost in the island of La Tortue - which was barely visible under the water, according to UN officials.
But Dieufort Deslorges, a spokesman for Haiti's civil protection agency, said the government had been in contact with officials on La Tortue and "nothing happened there".
Haiti's interim Prime Minister Gerard Latortue has called for international help, describing the flooded area as "a vast sea"."
Little confusing. But sounds like it's still there.
Look at his map :
how can there be visiblity problems unless the island sunk ?
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/americas/tortuga_84.jpg
MSNBC confirmed this story was not true.
Lets apply some (sorely lacking on your part) common sense to your tsunami theory. The earthquake you reference is over three hundred miles to the north of the island of La Tortue. This also places it north of the Bahamas, Cuba (NE) and Haiti/Santo Domingo. WERE a tsunami generated, it would have been detected in the Bahamas, Cuba and the main portions of Santo Domingo and Haiti and caused similar effects to what you are claiming for La Tortue. Nothing was idenified in any other direction from the quake site either. Furthermore the island of La Tortue has a maximum elevation of over 300 feet. A 5.4 quake would not generate a 300+ foot tsunami wave. You don't just lose a island. Furthermore, the earthquake is too far away to have lowered the island below sealevel, not without creating a heck of a BIGGER seismic signature than a 300+ mile away quake. Finally, it appears you are grossly unaware of the intensity of a tropical storm rain event - I am having been in the carribean during hurricane season.
Weekly world news does better tinfoil than this because they do better research first. You could learn something from that.
what exactly is not true ?
First of all, it was a 6.1 for Potsdam - check Raw Data for 39 stations :
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1211143/posts?page=129#129
First of all, you need to know a LITTLE about seismic evaluations. Potsdam is where??? indicating that its evaluation is based upon EUROPEAN stations (hint, hint). A tinfoil thread a while back had a EUROPEAN network initially ploted a 6.0 quake off Florida, upon further analysis, the actual location was off the west coast of Mexico. Secondly, I don't think you are qualified to analyze RAW data unless you are a seismologist. Secondly, US and Carribean seismic stations are closer to the epicenter and provide better data as to location and magnitude. The international seismic community recognizes this. Finally, even a 6.1 is still TOO SMALL to do what you are claiming.
That contradicts the previous info
yes it does, thank God.
We are talking events 300 miles apart and there is no such thing as a "new" hurricane. Same old process, same old results AND your theory is still IMPOSSIBLE. Get real.
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