SUMATRA QUAKE REVISED TO 9.0 MAG

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[Brian Mosely]

Magnitude 9.0 - OFF THE WEST COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATRA
2004 December 26 00:58:50 UTC

Preliminary Earthquake Report
U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center
World Data Center for Seismology, Denver

A great earthquake occurred at 00:58:50 (UTC) on Sunday, December 26, 2004. The magnitude 9.0 event has been located OFF THE WEST COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATRA. (This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.)

Magnitude		9.0
Date-Time	Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 00:58:50 (UTC) = Coordinated Universal Time Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 6:58:50 AM = local time at epicenter
Location	3.298°N, 95.779°E
Depth	10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program
Region		OFF THE WEST COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATRA
Distances	250 km (155 miles) SSE of Banda Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia 320 km (200 miles) W of Medan, Sumatra, Indonesia 1260 km (780 miles) SSW of BANGKOK, Thailand 1605 km (1000 miles) NW of JAKARTA, Java, Indonesia
	Location Uncertainty	horizontal +/- 9.2 km (5.7 miles); depth fixed by location program
Parameters	Nst=157, Nph=157, Dmin=>999 km, Rmss=1.35 sec, Gp= 29°, M-type=moment magnitude (Mw), Version=9
Source	USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
	Event ID	usslav
Felt Reports	At least 3,000 people killed in Sri Lanka, 2,300 in India, 2,000 in Indonesia, 289 in Thailand, 42 in Malaysia, 8 in Somalia and 2 in Bangladesh by tsunamis. Tsunamis also occurred on the coasts of Maldives and Cocos Island. At least 200 people killed, buildings destroyed or damaged in the Banda Aceh area, Sumatra. Felt widely in Sumatra. Also felt in Bangladesh, India, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore and Thailand. This is now the fourth largest earthquake in the world since 1900 and is the largest since the 1964 Prince William Sound, Alaska earthquake.

Today's shallow, thrust-type earthquake occurred off the west coast of northern Sumatra at the interface between the India and Burma plates. In this region, the Burma plate is characterized by significant strain partitioning due to oblique convergence of the India and Australia plates to the west and the Sunda and Eurasian plates to the east. Off the west coast of northern Sumatra, the India plate is moving in a northeastward direction at about 5 cm per year relative to the Burma plate. Preliminary locations of larger aftershocks following today's earthquake show that approximately 1000 km of the plate boundary slipped as a result of the earthquake. Aftershocks are distributed along much of the shallow plate boundary between northern Sumatra (approximately 3 degrees north) to near Andaman Island (at about 14 degrees north).

[Quix]

Actually, BION, Coast to Coast is 97% of the time too far out for my bother.

[Dave Elias]

I wonder if the Illois believe in karma?

[the invisib1e hand]

acknowledging that the quake was NOT a message from god to muslims does not make one a marxist. thanks for playing.

Sorry, I missed the context. But now that you bring it up, how can you be sure it's NOT?

[Libertarian4Bush]

Sorry, I missed the context

that's all right, no worries.

But now that you bring it up, how can you be sure it's NOT?

did you interpret the shuttle disaster (in which a jew died over palestine, tx) as god's message to the judeo-christian world? of course not. and may I suggest that to imply such things is very non-christian in my opinion?

[Strategerist]

Yep...

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqinthenews/2004/KB_prediction.html

It's the group of Vladimir Keilis-Borok.

They had apparently been successful in "predicting" the Hokkaido quake of 2003 and the San Simeon California quake last year, but their predictions were very "vague" in the sense that both quakes had a good chance of happening by dumb luck.

Their next prediction was the one for Southern California, which failed. The window closed on September 5th.

It's extremely likely that the previous successful predictions by the group were simply "dumb luck."

[Quix]

Hmmmm.

On reflection, I thought there was a quake that qualified regarding the Sept deadline. Wasn't there one out in the Mojave desert in that time frame?

Certainly you could be right, for all I know.

[Collier]

What's the situation in North Thailand, if you know.
My sister-in-law's brother lives there.

[Dave Elias]

"I am guessing by it's shape DG is a former volcano "top" and so does NOT have the shallow waters to set up the "hit".. I did read earlier on another thread how the tidal waves are very regular wave like in the open sea."

The shape is more indicative of an atoll, which means it's a coral reef formation, not volcanic.

[JennysCool]

Wouldn't your sister in law's brother be your brother in law?

(Cue the music!) I'm my own grampa...

[The Electrician]

According to this history of Diego Garcia, both of you are on target:

Diego Garcia is a living coral atoll; the coral reefs and island are made up of trillions of living organisms. Once an ancient volcano, all that is left is the atoll surrounding a central lagoon. Thanks to its tropical location and heavy rainfall, the island is heavily vegetated with coconut palm and ironwood trees.

[the invisib1e hand]

did you interpret the shuttle disaster (in which a jew died over palestine, tx) as god's message to the judeo-christian world?

Other than the fact that both incidents were tragic, I see no comparison. This analogy says nothing to me. And furthermore, my interpretation of these events does nothing to solve questions of their "meaning" or origin, if there is one.

[Libertarian4Bush]

CORRECTION:

well, in that case, I can't say for sure that it wasn't a message from the eyebrow crabs of the vixens of pluto directed at the mooninites. which makes that, and the "quake as a message to muslims" tripe, equally likely in my rational worldview.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

From another thread:

Massive 8.5 quake rocks Southeast Asia, triggers tidal waves

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I just recieved an email from my son who is stationed at Diego Garcia, according to him they didnt even feel the quake, and no sign of any waves coming their way. He was talking more about what a great meal they were fed on Christmas then what was going on elsewhere. Which was FINE with me!

An Air force mom!

110 posted on 12/26/2004 4:41:15 PM PST by margieelisabeth

[JennysCool]

Wow! How great to hear! Thanks for posting the post, Ernest!

[Quix]

WONDERFUL. SO ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL.

THANKS MUCH for sharing this with us.

[Ken H]

The wave would have already hit them by now if it were going to, right?

[U S Army EOD]

You have to have shallows, and then a blockage with no where for the water to go. It can flow around the island.

[TheDon]

Great news amid so much tragedy!

[U S Army EOD]

But Kerry and VVAW had started to whittle away from within. We never gave the South Vietnamese all we promised them after 1972. We didn't even replenish their ammo expenditure. The entire communist world resupplied the North and the South Vietnamese were left on their own.