Magnitude 9.0 Earthquake - OFF THE WEST COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATRA

USGS Earthquake Hazards ^ | 2004 December 26 00:58:55 UTC

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Magnitude 8.1 - OFF THE WEST COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATRA
2004 December 26 00:58:55 UTC

Preliminary Earthquake Report
West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center/NOAA/NWS

A great earthquake occurred at 00:58:55 (UTC) on Sunday, December 26, 2004. The magnitude 8.1 event has been located OFF THE WEST COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATRA. (This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.)

Magnitude	8.1
Date-Time	Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 00:58:55 (UTC) = Coordinated Universal Time Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 6:58:55 AM = local time at epicenter
Location	3.400°N, 95.700°E
Depth	40 km (24.9 miles) set by location program
Region	OFF THE WEST COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATRA
Distances	235 km (145 miles) S of Banda Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia 330 km (205 miles) W of Medan, Sumatra, Indonesia 1620 km (1000 miles) NW of JAKARTA, Java, Indonesia 3405 km (2120 miles) SE of NEW DELHI, Delhi, India
Location Uncertainty	Error estimate not available
Parameters	Nst=020, Nph=020, Dmin=>999 km, Rmss=0.98 sec, Gp=101°, M-type=moment magnitude (Mw), Version=1
Source	West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center/NOAA/NWS
Event ID	at00000264

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[Quix]

And yea for that infinitely important RELATIONSHIP.

He's gotten me to do thing's I'd have never dreamed of, too. And to aspire to things I was formerly terrified of.

FEAR NOT.

Still praying for more of a sense of His Love, though. Don't think I know anything else to do on that score but keep on keeping on and wait on Him and His timing.

Glad He is the perfecter of my faith and of me.

LUB,

[Quix]

Well put.

Agreed.

I love weaving and finding interesting weavings. The orient has lots of them.

I love the Thai tribal weavings.

LUB,

[oceanperch]

I saw that thanks.

I have been resting up the past few days as King Vanity even though homebound had quite alot of company last week and so I felt like I have worked double time.

If I was my normal high energy pacing around the clock shift working self I would have already called the appropriate folks here on the Oregon Coast to see if our tide tables have fluctuated.

Soon as I get back to my energetic self I will do just that.

My mailbox sits literally on the bay's edge, and I have been looking at the water which has been appearing to be at high tide every time I look and with the moon full the tides are always at there highest.

Now if I look down and see fish swimming around then that would be odd.

[ruthles]

I love that!!! You got it all goin' on!

[ruthles]

It sounds like you've had your share of fascination in your career. Very interesting.

[mfccinsd]

Right, and in some regions of these countries, even if the message got to one point, by the time it got to where the biggest losses have been it may still have been too late. There's been much talk about how difficult communication under normal circumstances. Never mind that some of these places also are basically isolated under "good" conditions, so trying to get to a safe place would be difficult at best for many people. For instance, remote villages basically only accesible by air, the smaller islands that are low lying and only accessible by boat of some sort, low lying areas that just don't have higher ground close enough that could have been reached in such a short time, and the areas where there are the political problems that some factions may not have heard the warnings, even if others did, and people may not have tried to risk leaving.

Although certainly the warnings would have helped some (perhaps even many) in certain places, I don't think it is quite as much of a preventative in many of these areas as it would be nice to think.

A sad situation altogether...and I'm afraid the numbers are still going to rise dramatically. Hearing some sources say the numbers in the Aceh area alone may get near 100,000...with several other regions also saying numbers will rise significantly... Praying that the illness situation being mentioned by the WHO won't be nearly as bad as it could be...

[oceanperch]

Anything we are not hearing in the States?

Kinda reminds me of Bikini Island if that is the correct one where the nuke was tested and now is an off limits wasteland.

Some of those small Islands IMO are going to be Bikini Islands with all the devastation and dead.

[oceanperch]

Ken, capitan_refugio has been very helpful in these sorts of questions.

Good question BTW.

[oceanperch]

and he is gonna wear a pair of Levis
when he gets State side.

Don't be so mean spirited.

This thread has seen enough of that already.

[oceanperch]

Lord have Mercy.....

[Godebert]

Sorry...I call them as I see 'em. I don't like phoneys that pass themselves off as something they're not. I don't like gun-grabbers either.

[geopyg]

"...Hearing some sources say the numbers in the Aceh area alone may get near 100,000..."

I fear that the numbers will be staggering. I told my wife after the first news of it Sunday night when they said death toll of 700 that it would be in the 100's of thousands. 9.2 quake, tsunami, dense populations, poor countries, poor infrastructure (more folks concentrated near the shorelines), inadequate governments (civil wars, etc.), warm climate, - it all adds up to an enormous tragedy.

[BJungNan]

I wonder if this one will generate a Tsunami?

I suppose you know by now you were among the very first to sound this warning. I just came across the thread and noticed the significance of your post.

[BJungNan]

Can I please ask the obvious dumb question?..How do you have two quakes that huge and NOT generate a tsunami?

I guess we have our answer on this one, don't we.

[oceanperch]

I guess we all have ways of reacting to our passions in our own lives.

I will leave you to yours.

[ken5050]

Wow...I'd forgotten I wrote that..but it seemed so obvious to me..however..I'd happily have gone on record here as being dumb..had it saved a few , even ONE life..

[ken5050]

Flashback..see my #51 this page..right after the initial reports..talk about being "prescient"

[txhurl]

Our tax dollars at work.

Sleeper troll.

[Godebert]

Do I know you? I've been here over 5 years and never recall seeing a post of yours before.

[oceanperch]

I wonder if they can set up a crematorium to deal with the dead.

Time is of the essence I would think in preventing disease.

I hope the natives to each area of devastation can understand that traditional burial rituals cannot be allowed in this monumental crisis.

I have heard reports of those Family members trying to get back in the destroyed areas looking for family.

I pray they will understand the need to quarantine and clean up the human debris. The insistence of those family members to get into quarantined areas IMO could cost more lives of loved ones as it is wasting time to organize and perhaps find those that are alive and in need of assistance/medical care.

Teams of health care professionals left our area, the PNW, two days ago as I am sure they have all over the world.

I find it ironic that at a time of war we are now all coming together for a humanitarian effort not caused by man.
(greedy, evil, tyrants like Saddam)
Actually this would be a great cause for all the anti war types to volunteer for, give them something positive to do.

I cannot fathom how and where they are going to start the clean up and assisting the poor to put their lives back together.

My (adoptive mothers) family live in Samar PI and I saw first hand how they live day to day fishing to eat daily.
BTW some of the best fish I ever had cooked over coconut shell briquet's, even the iron for clothes used coconut shell briquet's.

If I did not have King Vanity to care for and was on my own in another chapter of my life I would go volunteer with an organization that really care for the needy and displaced and not their administrative pocket books.