Posted on 01/01/2005 9:38:48 PM PST by Coleus
Beyond killing tens of thousands and unleashing a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions, the twinned earthquake and tsunami that struck Southeast Asia Sunday altered the angle of the Earth on its axis, moved the North Pole, pushed walls of water throughout all the world's oceans and shifted the soil as far away as Newark, researchers are reporting.
Scientists said yesterday they are looking beyond the tragedy to try to extract meaning from an event of such magnitude. They want to learn how the Earth responds as a system to one of Nature's terrible jolts. And they wonder about the Earth's resilience.
Calculations performed by Richard Gross of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California show that the quake sped up the rotation of the Earth and enlarged its wobble, causing the length of a day to shrink permanently by 3 millionths of a second. It also moved the North Pole 1 inch, he found.
Researchers at the Lamont-Doherty facility in New York, part of Columbia University, have been tracking earthquakes for decades and say their instruments showed that the quake rang the Earth like a bell. Seismic waves emanated from the epicenter, like ripples moving out from a pebble thrown onto a pond surface.
Armbruster, the Lamont-Doherty seismologist, said that, though he hasn't completed his analysis, he believes the quake moved the soil in the Newark and greater metropolitan area by a half- inch. The temblor on the other side of the world pushed the ground up that far, then back down the same distance. The movement was so swift, it was not noticed by residents of the region, he said.
A well-studied 1964 quake in Alaska of a greater magnitude moved the ground in New York up 2 inches and then down 2 inches, he said.
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There's a reason why the word is Japanese.
How and Why were they anounced before the quake?? Or were there enough other quakes to make a difference? So what you are telling me, is, I need new software for my gps to work corectly?
Your GPS is fine. The north pole is constantly moving. The magnetic declination corrections are also constantly changing. Delorme decided it was time to issue an update. I received an e-mail notification because I'm a registered, paying customer. The updates were in progress for months before the quake.
If your GPS has a base map that show magnetic lines of declination for a given point, then you might want to track down a firmware update. Garmin MapSource products will probably be appropriately updated soon as well.
Thanks, mine is a Loran, I guess they will have some updates too.
If you use a Loran C on a boat, it probably won't be affected. Loran C charts are based on terrestrial transmitters. It would take some pretty big rearrangements of tectonic plates to make Loran C charts significantly in error.
A similar mechanism could cause the same result on any coastline. >>
We have about 100 miles of barrier island coastline, a tsunami would run right over them.
"It's a small, small world after all", as the Disney song goes.
>>>"And what kind of provisions, alert system and emergency plan does the NJ State Police, National Guard, Port Authority, municipal and county Police and US Coast Guard have planned."
Only to shelter in.
There is no longer a current list of shelters out there either.
One of the little tasks I had volunteered to do for my USAVHSSC group was to supple a list of evacuation shelters. These were all our beloved, older, school buildings that use to have that nice yellow and black sign with "Bomb Shelter" on it.
These locations are not available in an accessable source any more.
Many of these have been knocked down for different uses. None were maintained as shelters.
Nothing has been created to replace them.
No controllable evacuation routes.
Something happens, we go to lock down first and only emergency first alerts are aloud on the street.
I am not sure where you are located, but the effects of a tsunami on barrier islands would be similar to the storm surge that destroyed Galveston Island, TX, during a particularly bad hurricane about 100 years ago.
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Volley bttt!
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Santa has to move? No.....!
I KNEW I was a half inch off !!!!!
Nevermind.
wait a minute...rightie tightie....leftie loosie....
I'll get back to you later.
Science is not as easy as it used to be.........
LOLOLOL!
the slightest flutter of a butterfly wing can ultimately cause a tsunami on the other side of the world
I told people, if it moved Sumatra, it changed the flow of water, that means weather changes!
Now, to hear this, I ean, only an inch, but WOW, that is STILL enormous!
Then you know more than they did when they formed all these theories!
The ice age was more likely caused by the water vapor that fell during Noah's Flood, that would explain the ice age a lot easier than a meteor or volcano could.
http://www.accuracyingenesis.com/iceage.html
http://www.angelfire.com/mi/dinosaurs/mammoth.html
http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/iceage.asp
Ice Age Questions and Answers
Yeah, like anyone knows where Newark, or even Trenton, really is to start with...OK...heading there in a couple weeks, though, gotta rent a car!
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