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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.)
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![Small globe showing earthquake](/recenteqsww/Quakes/96_3_globe.jpg) ![Small map showing earthquake](http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/recent/at00000264_small.gif)
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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
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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
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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
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Event ID |
at00000264 |
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2004; 8point1; 8point9; africa; asian; asianearthquake; christmas; earthquake; hangten; india; indonesia; jakarta; madras; ninepointzero; quake; srilanka; sumatra; sumatraquake; surfsup; thrustfault; tidalwave; tidalwaves; tsunami; tsunamis
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To: capitan_refugio
I believe there is another intensity scale, IIRC that better measures the destruction potential than the Richter scale when it gets this bad. But, I can't think of its name.
321
posted on
12/26/2004 12:17:17 AM PST
by
rwfromkansas
("War is an ugly thing, but...the decayed feeling...which thinks nothing worth war, is worse." -Mill)
To: BearWash
Aye Aye, Sir.
You're probably right.
322
posted on
12/26/2004 12:18:42 AM PST
by
Quix
(5having a form of godliness but denying its power. I TIM 3:5)
To: All
Anybody hear about Diego Garcia?
To: rwfromkansas
I agree, the arrogance of posters thinking that god is playing "hit man" for their particular sect is sickening.
Pray for the victims, the Indonesians and Thai are some of the finest people I've ever met.
324
posted on
12/26/2004 12:18:50 AM PST
by
Central Scrutiniser
(I'll never see myself in the mirror with my eyes closed)
To: ForGod'sSake
Im still around, just on the phone and stuff. There was damage in parts of Malaysia, up near Pangkor and Penang. I think also Langkawi.
Sorry, its just kinda crazy here at the moment. People are worried about the aftershocks now.
All flights cancelled from KUL already - both Medan flights and Phuket.
325
posted on
12/26/2004 12:20:48 AM PST
by
expatguy
(http://laotze.blogspot.com/)
To: MikeinIraq
Doesn't appear that you understood a thing I wrote.
I have 0.000000000000000000000% confidence I could help you understand.
326
posted on
12/26/2004 12:20:53 AM PST
by
Quix
(5having a form of godliness but denying its power. I TIM 3:5)
To: Quix
We seem pretty well headed that direction now. Baloney! Just your bias and ignorance showing, show me some empirical proof that God is pissed and is destroying cities to show his anger. Better leave out Florida and all them Baptists. You want to take anythng and extrapolate anectdotal events to fit your beliefs, highly unscientific, and bad taste at the least.
327
posted on
12/26/2004 12:21:29 AM PST
by
Central Scrutiniser
(I'll never see myself in the mirror with my eyes closed)
To: Netizen
328
posted on
12/26/2004 12:22:26 AM PST
by
MikefromOhio
(16 days until I can leave Iraq and stop selling hot dogs in Baghdad....and boycotting boycotts)
To: Periander
Oh, I knew he was quite askew from my understanding of God. And, I've read that he was wrong about quantum--perhaps in more than one way or 3.
I just wanted to use the metaphor.
329
posted on
12/26/2004 12:22:40 AM PST
by
Quix
(5having a form of godliness but denying its power. I TIM 3:5)
To: Central Scrutiniser
You're soooooo sweet.
And soooooooooo clueless about what I was saying.
330
posted on
12/26/2004 12:23:17 AM PST
by
Quix
(5having a form of godliness but denying its power. I TIM 3:5)
To: Quix
try me....
but let me guess, you are above me right?
331
posted on
12/26/2004 12:23:23 AM PST
by
MikefromOhio
(16 days until I can leave Iraq and stop selling hot dogs in Baghdad....and boycotting boycotts)
To: Diddle E. Squat
As I recall, you tend to read the tea leaves as you prefer rather regardless. Enjoy.
332
posted on
12/26/2004 12:24:50 AM PST
by
Quix
(5having a form of godliness but denying its power. I TIM 3:5)
To: Quix
If I find the research--a very low priority--I'll post it on the PROPHETIC SIGNS OF END TIMES thread. The morality issues correlated were pretty standard fare that every culture would easily agree with. Basic values are not that different the world over. Very few cultures have families loving the neighboring family if the neighboring family is theiving, raping and murdering and the like. Posts like that only serve to cement stereotypes that the left has about christians. That is an amazingly silly thing to post. In my lifetime I have heard "end times are very very soon!" blather thrown my way dozens of times, join the real world, your hyperventilating nonsense only undermines anything of value you have to add to a thread. Pray for the victims, we are all human.
333
posted on
12/26/2004 12:25:04 AM PST
by
Central Scrutiniser
(I'll never see myself in the mirror with my eyes closed)
To: Quix
Quix, you seem to see God as some Christian Jerry Bruckheimer, pointing his finger and destroying things.
Very sad, and very myopic.
334
posted on
12/26/2004 12:26:15 AM PST
by
Central Scrutiniser
(I'll never see myself in the mirror with my eyes closed)
To: Central Scrutiniser
335
posted on
12/26/2004 12:26:37 AM PST
by
Quix
(5having a form of godliness but denying its power. I TIM 3:5)
To: expatguy
Sorry, its just kinda crazy here at the moment. Understood. I can appreciate that. Thanks for the updates.
I have been running back and forth from computinmachine to teevee finding almost nothing on the tube. I find that amazing since this is a major event. But hey, whadda I know.
FGS
336
posted on
12/26/2004 12:26:43 AM PST
by
ForGod'sSake
(ABCNNBCBS: An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly.)
To: Netizen
Actually, that's a significant part of what I said.
Guess I'm not tooooo surprised you chose to fail to understand my English.
337
posted on
12/26/2004 12:27:32 AM PST
by
Quix
(5having a form of godliness but denying its power. I TIM 3:5)
To: All
The latest from the Phuket Gazette:
Touirsts tell of their tidal wave ordeal
PHUKET: Swedish tourist Kjell Sköld, of Gothenburg, has described how the rising waters of the wave trapped him, his wife, Bibi, and their young children in their bungalow at Andaman Bay Resort, at Bang Tao.
The water went out then came back in very, very quickly, taking everything with it, said Mr Sköld. When the water came into the bungalow, we put everything on the beds
all the windows were closed, so the water kept pushing everything up towards the roof.
It pushed us up to the roof, then the roof came off and we floated away.
After being washed down to land, Mr and Mrs Sköld managed to get their seven-year-old daughter, Stephanie, to safety in a high cement building, but then realized that their 10-year-old son, Sebastian, was missing.
He was found a few minutes later, about 200 meters away, sitting in a tree the flood had swept him to. I cant put into words what it feels like to be missing your son, said Mr Sköld.
He added that the family were four days into a three-week holiday. We were supposed to be going to Koh Lanta today, but weve lost everything. This is all we have, said Mr Skoll holding up a 15-liter backpack.
Marie Holmberg, her husband Henrik and her parents Denis and Gun Larsson went to see the chaos caused by the the first wave to hit Karon Beach
and found themselves caught up in the second wave.
We were standing there taking pictures and the wave started coming back, faster and faster, so we started to run away, faster and faster, but my parents didnt run fast enough, said Mrs Holmberg, from Sweden.
The wave knocked Mr and Mrs Larsson over, and they were hit by rubbish floating in the water, but they were well enough to make their own way to Phuket International Hospital for Mr Larsson to be treated for a badly damaged toe and other cuts and bruises.
A member of staff at Bangkok Phuket Hospital said that at least 50 victims of the wave were taken to the hospital within an hour and a half of the wave hitting the island, but she said it was too early to confirm the numbers of injured or the number of dead.
338
posted on
12/26/2004 12:28:29 AM PST
by
Central Scrutiniser
(I'll never see myself in the mirror with my eyes closed)
To: Central Scrutiniser
It's usually wiser and more considerate to actually read and understand what someone wrote before accusing them falsely.
Sheesh.
339
posted on
12/26/2004 12:29:49 AM PST
by
Quix
(5having a form of godliness but denying its power. I TIM 3:5)
To: ForGod'sSake
I must have some setting screwed up. Too tired to sort it out tonight.
THANKS for letting me know, though.
Have appreciated dialogue with you.
340
posted on
12/26/2004 12:30:47 AM PST
by
Quix
(5having a form of godliness but denying its power. I TIM 3:5)
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