Posted on 12/25/2004 9:19:29 PM PST by Barte45
Huge casualties are being reported following tidal waves and earth tremors in countries across southern and eastern Asia.
Totals are now at least 200 dead in all of Southeast Asia from the quake.
It's either a full moon or close to one, doesn't that make the tides higher anyway? Added to the huge earthquake...
It's because news organizations are devoid of anyone with a scrap of scientific education, generally.
Actually destructive Pacific-Wide tsunamis are fairly routine, hence not of End-Times proportions.
There haven't been any destructive Pacific-Wide tsunamis for 40 years, which is truly odd. Previous to that they often occured every few years.
Ping
Actually, tidal waves and tsunamis are the same thing; oceanographers dropped the term 'tidal wave' precisely because it wrongly gave people the idea that such waves were caused by tides, and substituted the Japanese word 'tsunami' which, I am told, means 'wave caused by tides'!
I think I remember from years ago that the tidal range at that latitude is less than say, at New Brunswick, but I could be wrong. Nautical people feel free to issue correction.
Thanks for the effort, anyway, BW. Hope you had a great Christmas; I haven't forgotten my FReepmail promise. ;-D
10 earthquakes now of 5.8 or higher in the last 3.5 hours; latest about 7.5.
Newsreports now say over 500 killed in Srilanka & around 400 Indian fishermen missing.Almost all of the Eastern Indian coastal states & island territories have seen tremors & casualities of varying degrees.Sumatra & Aceh in Indonesia seems to be the worst affected as far degree of the earthquake,though number of casualities there seem unlcear.
Wasn't this the same area that though they were hit by a meteorite last week?
Yes, Jakarta to be exact.
Jakarta is nowhere near where this quake took place. Indonesia is an awfully big country.
We're speaking of an awfully large earthquake also.
I don't think so .. FOX was reporting that hundreds of people may have been swept out to sea.
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Reuters - A huge earthquake hit southern Asia on Sunday, setting off a tsunami that drowned hundreds in Sri Lanka and India, sent Indonesians rushing to high ground and washed ... Southeast Asia hit by earthquake, tsunamis Over 500 dead as huge earthquake wreaks havoc across Asia |
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Numbers steadily going up!
According to the following website, this earthquake has been changed to an 8.9 magnitude.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqinthenews/2004/usslav/
I see that. With all the name-calling and flame wars on the other posts, it's hard to get solid information, but it doesn't look good.
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