Magnitude 9.0 Earthquake - OFF THE WEST COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATRA

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

[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.)

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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[NautiNurse]

Glad to hear you are still safe. Thanks for the update--and best wishes to you in the difficult days and weeks ahead.

[PokeyJoe]

I'm confused. Is this a conservative forum or a religous forum?

[oceanperch]

After arecent storm one of our offshore bouys was set free and ended up coming ashore very far up North.

I think in Washington it came ashore.

[oceanperch]

Those killed by the Indian Ocean Earthquake and tsunami's must have all been wearing
Levi's. (wink,wink)

[Central Scrutiniser]

I give Thai police wide berth, Cambodian even more so.

I've put a few more pictures up and maps on this thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308657/posts

[Quix]

LOL! TRANSLATE IS CERTAINLY THE WORD! Have long had people translate between me and others! Story of my life.

Doesn't seem to matter how much I try to be hearable and inoffensive--doesn't seem to matter one degree! Interesting phenomena.

God seems to persistently tell me to accept the way He made me--that I'm for Him and His purposes--that I must be secure in His delight in me--quit whining about the stark differences and forget about seeking man's approval, being liked or even understood. Still a growing edge after 57 years! LOL.

But your kindness will be long remembered, believe me.

[Quix]

Interesting. How far up the hill does your property go? No practical probability of building a new bedroom there?

God is able, regardless--to warn, protect etc.

His best to you and yours. The only safety for any of us is to walk close to God and live in the shelter of His 'wings.'

[commonguymd]

I swear this forum has turned into a version of the looney tunes - that's all folks!

[Quix]

It's just not that common in my experience for someone to be so spiritually discerning and to click in so accurately and quickly to where I'm coming from. You not only read my heart well but my words well, too. PRAISE GOD AND THANKS.

Yes, that was the goal--prayers that God would catch as many as possible and remove those absolutely terminal evil forces that hinder others and The Kingdom with only death and evil.

[commonguymd]

Perhaps you two should get a private room?

[berkeleybeej]

FWIW - NEIC has the earthquake at 9.0

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqinthenews/2004/usslav/

[Quix]

You speak to every issue in your life to greater or lesser degree out of your value system. It is impossible for you not to. It shows. Maybe to some listeners it shows loudly and to some softly. But it shows in your word choices, your tonse, your sentence structure etc.

I have no desire or interest in gagging you. I find the diversity fascinating. Sometimes it's even enlightening.

But somehow, there's developed a mindset from hell that anyone sharing their perspective on life and life events out of their value system--IF IT'S CHRISTIAN--is intolerable. Usually the most upset are those screaming the loudest about people needing to be tolerant of their extreme acting out.

I have no apology for commenting on this dramatic situation out of my value system. If you are offended, skip my posts. It just so happens that my value system was the one that got this great country started and founded on such solid spiritual and social principles.

Yours sounds more like the value system of the commies, globalists, socialists, nihilists et al who seek to destroy our country. Nevertheless, I still have no desire to gag you.

But I resist your desire to gag, manage or isolate my comments on life and life events because, like everyone else, I comment out of my value system.

[Quix]

THANKS MUCH.

[commonguymd]

Top of the scale is a Great earthquake 8+. Major is a 7-8. Not sure which sounds bigger - Major or Great. They need another category for 9+ imo.

Still amazed. My wife is in the Punjab area right now and I was worried about the aftershocks going north. She felt nothing though.

[Quix]

Speak for yourself about yourself, Fred.

Looney is not automatically = looney.

And personal attacks are proscribed.

I realize you feel you have plenty freedom and exception to the rules because you are hostile to values not your own--assuming that your own, of course, are more perfect or more equal than those which you are hostile to.

[Quix]

Perhaps you should go to 7/11 and get about 10 gallons of charity. Or, failing that, perhaps half a dozen quarts of compassion and understanding.

If those would give you indigestion, you might try a dozen packs of silence.

[commonguymd]

I thought this was a thread on an earthquake, but you insist on turning into a manifestation of the second coming. The looney comment generally refers to the back and forths that have absolutely nothing to do with the tradegy, but with some of you folks attempting to make yourself seem superior and/or smarter than others here. Start a thread on the apocolypse and go there to discuss it - is what I suggest.

[Boundless]

Now revised to 9.0

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/Quakes/usslav.htm

[Quix]

God knows my lack of feeling superior. Sorry it hasn't come across better.

I wasn't the one who made my values and comments on the tragedy an issue. But neither do I feel the need to roll over and play dead in front of the hostile, doublethink, doubletalk forces.

I'll be happy to stick to the topic with whatever naturally occurring comments from my value system as soon as others behave accordingly.