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Magnitude 9.0 Earthquake - OFF THE WEST COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATRA
USGS Earthquake Hazards ^ | 2004 December 26 00:58:55 UTC

Posted on 12/25/2004 5:46:26 PM PST by bd476

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.)

Small globe showing earthquake

Small map showing earthquake

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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To: Periander

Wow! That is an 8x power increase from the first reported level of 8.1.


261 posted on 12/25/2004 11:29:25 PM PST by nhoward14 (Freedom costs a buck-o-five.)
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To: Quix

You're getting yourself more worked up than need be...


262 posted on 12/25/2004 11:29:45 PM PST by steve86
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To: BurbankKarl

Pronounce it "foo-kay" just like the Bucket woman does her name on Keeping Up Appearances.


263 posted on 12/25/2004 11:30:42 PM PST by nhoward14 (Freedom costs a buck-o-five.)
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To: Netizen

I don't know of any.

And I don't think you do either.

And your snide assulative language tends to indicate that your awash in the same values you condemn.

You sound like the one you describe feeling pious after attacking others unjustly.


264 posted on 12/25/2004 11:31:06 PM PST by Quix (5having a form of godliness but denying its power. I TIM 3:5)
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To: Netizen

He wasn't even hitting in the right galactic cluster.


265 posted on 12/25/2004 11:32:10 PM PST by Quix (5having a form of godliness but denying its power. I TIM 3:5)
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To: Periander
Yep....wow is right. Like I said these magnitudes, especially for huge quakes, will be repeatedly revised.

Magnitude 8.9 - OFF THE WEST COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATRA

If that magnitude holds up it's now the 5th largest earthquake since 1900.

266 posted on 12/25/2004 11:32:33 PM PST by Strategerist
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To: nhoward14

"It's boo--kay."

Heaven help me, I do like the Vicar show and that show when they come on PBS.

But, on more serious matters, I hope the death toll won't rise more than it already has.....but I fear it will.

Hopefully Diego Garcia was spared, but that seems virtually impossible....


267 posted on 12/25/2004 11:32:41 PM PST by rwfromkansas ("War is an ugly thing, but...the decayed feeling...which thinks nothing worth war, is worse." -Mill)
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To: expatguy
Here is a pic, it looks like Kata beach, not Patong, as there are no high rises, it might be Karon.
268 posted on 12/25/2004 11:32:56 PM PST by Central Scrutiniser (I'll never see myself in the mirror with my eyes closed)
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To: bd476

Holy Cow! Any witnesses?


269 posted on 12/25/2004 11:33:13 PM PST by GVnana (If I had a Buckhead moment would I know it?)
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To: bd476
Think about it this way. The earthquake near Indonesia had a hypocentral depth of 40 kilometers. One of our typical California earthquakes has a hypocentral depth of 5-15 kilometers (subduction zone earthquakes are typically much deeper than those we experience).

Given the lithostatic pressure caused by 5-15 kilometers of rock over the point where the typical California earthquake begins, do you really think that any slight change in the barometric pressure would make any difference at all?

270 posted on 12/25/2004 11:33:37 PM PST by capitan_refugio
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To: Quix

A witness also told the radio from Sigli, in Aceh's Pidie district, the quake caused the dome of the main mosque there to collapse. The witness said there were no reports of any casualties.

Have prayed God would leave authentic churches standing and crash all the idol focused temples in quakes in Asia--whatever His Spirit's wisdom dictated in each situation but to make increasingly and abundantly clear where HE STOOD on such matters.

I don't know when I'll start to see answers to such prayers. But I believe I will in my lifetime. So this was a bit startling to read.




and if people died in that church its ok becasue they pray to a God other than yours? What a wonderful example of twisted Christianity....


271 posted on 12/25/2004 11:33:45 PM PST by MikefromOhio (16 days until I can leave Iraq and stop selling hot dogs in Baghdad....and boycotting boycotts)
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To: BurbankKarl

I pronounce it Boo-ghet.

But some news announcer here in Phoenix did it the wrong way about 20 years ago and then joked about it, ending his career.


272 posted on 12/25/2004 11:34:27 PM PST by Central Scrutiniser (I'll never see myself in the mirror with my eyes closed)
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To: MikeinIraq

correction to the word church...how about Mosque...

WAKE UP MIKE!!!


273 posted on 12/25/2004 11:34:43 PM PST by MikefromOhio (16 days until I can leave Iraq and stop selling hot dogs in Baghdad....and boycotting boycotts)
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To: rwfromkansas

I think with it sitting out in the middle of the Indian Ocean like it is, the only way it doesn't get hit is if God sees fit to divide the ocean like he did the Red Sea. (or Sea of Reeds)


274 posted on 12/25/2004 11:35:08 PM PST by nhoward14 (Freedom costs a buck-o-five.)
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To: Quix
BTW Quix, when Einstein said that he was making an argument in opposition to Quantum Mechanics. It turned out he was totally wrong on that. God does play dice, or at least the way Einstein defined it he does. Of course Einstein also said:

"I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings."

Not the kind of God you are talking about at all.
275 posted on 12/25/2004 11:36:01 PM PST by Periander
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To: MikeinIraq

Its amazing, whenever there is a disaster in a far flung part of the world, the cockroaches come out saying "See? it was God's will!", but when a tornado flattens a good old God fearing Baptist town in Oklahoma, you don't hear them talking about God getting vengance!


276 posted on 12/25/2004 11:36:15 PM PST by Central Scrutiniser (I'll never see myself in the mirror with my eyes closed)
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To: ForGod'sSake

AMEN!


277 posted on 12/25/2004 11:37:38 PM PST by Quix (5having a form of godliness but denying its power. I TIM 3:5)
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To: MikeinIraq

Thanks, I didn't feel like going back through the thread to retrieve that crap.


278 posted on 12/25/2004 11:37:41 PM PST by Netizen (jmo)
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To: Central Scrutiniser
Its amazing, whenever there is a disaster in a far flung part of the world, the cockroaches come out saying "See? it was God's will!", but when a tornado flattens a good old God fearing Baptist town in Oklahoma, you don't hear them talking about God getting vengance!

Heck, the cockroaches of every faith seem to do it. When a natural disaster strikes the U.S., some dumb Muslim cleric says it is the will of Allah.

279 posted on 12/25/2004 11:40:04 PM PST by COEXERJ145
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To: Periander

There was a very interesting show on PBS the other evening on string theory. Needless to say, with quantum mechanics, on a tiny level, things do not always act according to how they should.


280 posted on 12/25/2004 11:40:05 PM PST by rwfromkansas ("War is an ugly thing, but...the decayed feeling...which thinks nothing worth war, is worse." -Mill)
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