Posted on 12/28/2004 1:58:44 PM PST by BJungNan
Thought I would try setting up a thread for the posting of pics and videos of the killer tital waves and the aftermath. Add them here and we may end up with a pic/video collection in one place.
http://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/2004/12/27/418679.html
Click on these words when you get to the link (site not in English).
Dermed kan du selv se hvor sterke vannmassene var da den andre bølgen kom.
Ditto.
The southwestern city of Kalutara, Sri Lanka taken Dec. 26, 2004 at 10:20 a.m. local time, slightly less than four hours after the 6:28 a.m. (local Sri Lanka time) earthquake and shortly after the moment of tsunami impact.
This is a natural color satellite image showing the coastline on the southwestern city of Kalutara, Sri Lanka taken Jan. 1, 2004.
FYI..see #6 & #9 this thread..great graphics..and skim the whole thread is you have time..lots of kewl, and correct..info..regards..
Brian..my bad..#88 is NOT for you..sorry..
MY #88 was meant for you....sorry for the mix-up..regards
bump
Hello all, So far, I'm OK. The earthquake happened far away from the place where I live in. I live in Central Java, while Aceh and North Sumatra are about 2,000 kilometers (about 1,250 miles) to the North- West, so, people in Java can hardly feel the vibration. The only problem that I face right now is the trouble with my 6-year old niece, who invades my PC almost everyday to play some games..... :-) As the news said, it is the fourth biggest earthquake since 1900. The geologists (or whatever their name is) said that the strength of the earthquake is 8.9 in Magnitude Scale (do I write it right?) FYI, Indonesia lies on "fragile earth". Sumatran flank in the West, Javanese flank in the South, Kalimantan/Borneo - Celebes flank in the middle, and the most complex is the Mollucas flank in the East because it is the meeting point of at least three major tectonic plates. As a result, earthquake could strike anytime in Indonesia. Even worse, the earthquake often brings side effects, such as, tsunami and volcanic eruption, just like what happened in 2000. The biggest tsunami ever recorded in Indonesia is when Krakatau (Krakatoa) erupted in August 1883. It reached the height of 30 meters (100 feet) and destroyed vast area, thousands square miles... According to the witnesses, the wave of the recent tsunami was as high as 10 meters (30 feet) with an amazing speed.
Up to now, more than 7,000 people were killed and about 32,000 people were still missing. Sadly, most of the casualities are children and babies. Some cities and towns are badly destroyed. One town, Meulaboh, is severely damaged, so it can be said that it is almost "erased" completely from the surface of the earth with its people. The floating power station in Aceh was drowned as far as 20 kilometers (12.5 miles) away from its place by the tsunami. As a result, there is no power in Aceh at all. Fuel deposits are running out and the surviving people begin to face starvation and disease. The effect of the tsunami caused tidal waves in some Lesser Sunda islands, about 3,000 kilometers (1,875 miles) away from the epicentre, which reached as far as a mile from the coastline, so people were forced to leave their home for safety. So far, about 12 more earthquakes had happened, following the major one on Sunday morning.
That news is only about Indonesia. I don't know the latest news from India, Srilanka, Thailand, Malaysia, Maldives, and Ivory Coast because the first earthquake at Sumatran flank trigged at least two more big earthquakes caused tsunamies in those countries, esp. India and Srilanka. So, I think, the total casualities could reach 60,000 or even 70,000, including the missing people. When I was watching the news on TV, I was really shocked by what I saw. Houses are destroyed. Roads are full of ruins and bodies. Ships are pushed to the villages. Vehicles are drowned miles away. The survivors are crying for the lost families. Many of them are shocked, don't know what to do. They're just staring to nothing with hopeless eyes. But the saddest event that I saw is when there is a father who pulled out his dead child from the ruins. The child is completely naked because his/her clothes were "wiped away" by the tsunami and is already stiff and full of mud. His/her face showed that he/she cried for help when the wave "washed" him/her out. Seeing that - even when I'm typing this, I almost burst into tears. I don't know why it should happen. But the one thing I know, we're really fragile in this world. We could die instantly, nobody knows when. And all that I can do is praying.
That's all that I can write right now. Let's hope that the new year will bring a brighter day. Thank you very much for your sympathy to the people in troubles. Czesc, Desianto F. W.
LOL! I wondered where that guy was.
Hehe that was my first attempt at 'photo shopping' something. I was using M$ paint lol.
It is very interesting that you posted this because many large earthquakes in the past have been preceded by atmospheric disturbances.
Epicenters are in fact single point sources. That's where the rupture BEGAN...the fault slippage, however, propagated northwards from that point over 700 miles.
mark.
Thanks for the clarification..my mistake..among many..hehehe..was in conceptualizing the epicenter as the source of the tsunami..when in fact it is the entire length of the fault...But since you're obviosuly knowledgeable, I'm going to impose and ask another question..
I heard a scientist say today that when they measured a 9.0 quake..he knew it was a 1000 km fault slippage...HOw/why is the severity of the quake related so rprecisely to the length of the fault..
It's based on what we already know about previous quakes. The energy released is proportional to the surface of the fault plane that moves. All previous quakes in the M 9 range have had really long fault lengths, and have been suduction quakes. There are (fortunately) only a fairly small number of locations on the planet that can generate an M9. South of Java and Sumatra, Kamchatka, Alaska, off Washington and Oregon, and off South America. Things get complicated near Japan, I don't think you can quite reach M9 right near Japan because things are broken up into shorter faults. The 1755 Lisbon earthquake off Portugal is guestimated at M 8.7. There doesn't seem to be enough fault there to generate a 9. But they're actually not exactly sure where that quake was.
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