Posted on 01/24/2005 12:34:03 AM PST by kattracks
HONG KONG, Jan 24 (Reuters) - A large earthquake hit Sulawesi, Indonesia, early on Monday, the Hong Kong Observatory said.The quake, measured at 6.1 on the Richter scale at 4.15 a.m. (2015 GMT) in Hong Kong, was centred about 40 km (25 miles) south-southwest of Palu, the observatory reported.
It gave no further information.
The quake comes less than a month after the magnitude 9.0 Dec. 26 quake in the west of Indonesia that generated a tsunami, killing as many as 234,000 people around the Indian Ocean rim.
ROFL
Magnitude Greater Than 2.5 Earthquakes From Around the World
Update time = Mon Jan 24 15:18:46 UTC 2005 MAG DATE UTC-TIME LAT LON DEPTH region y/m/d h:m:s deg deg km map 2.6 2005/01/24 14:50:08 58.913 -153.100 70.0 KODIAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA map 2.8 2005/01/24 14:10:05 63.650 -149.887 140.0 CENTRAL ALASKA map 3.4 2005/01/24 06:35:29 52.555 -169.930 15.0 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA map 2.9 2005/01/24 06:21:51 53.856 -162.285 1.0 SOUTH OF ALASKA MAP 6.3 2005/01/24 04:16:45 7.355 92.481 10.0 NICOBAR ISLANDS, INDIA REGION map 3.2 2005/01/24 03:12:19 63.492 -145.856 1.0 CENTRAL ALASKA map 3.6 2005/01/24 02:32:00 62.969 -143.835 1.0 CENTRAL ALASKA map 2.5 2005/01/24 00:24:20 59.971 -152.798 100.0 SOUTHERN ALASKA MAP 6.1 2005/01/23 22:36:09 35.952 29.706 31.9 EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA map 4.7 2005/01/23 20:19:12 51.517 -176.857 40.0 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA MAP 6.3 2005/01/23 20:10:12 -1.250 119.794 10.0 SULAWESI, INDONESIA map 3.0 2005/01/23 19:59:40 61.028 -155.787 200.0 SOUTHERN ALASKA map 2.5 2005/01/23 15:53:29 59.505 -153.450 120.0 SOUTHERN ALASKA map 3.4 2005/01/23 13:56:13 56.052 -153.402 35.0 KODIAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA map 3.3 2005/01/23 10:17:29 53.271 -167.795 100.0 FOX ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA MAP 5.0 2005/01/23 10:06:07 -1.197 -80.675 13.4 NEAR THE COAST OF ECUADOR map 4.1 2005/01/23 07:26:31 56.085 -153.435 17.4 KODIAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA MAP 5.5 2005/01/23 03:32:27 -13.688 66.124 10.0 MID-INDIAN RIDGE MAP 6.4 2005/01/22 20:30:15 -7.716 159.463 10.0 SOLOMON ISLANDS map 2.5 2005/01/22 19:53:13 19.088 -156.220 8.4 HAWAII REGION, HAWAII map 2.6 2005/01/22 16:12:11 62.447 -149.136 15.0 CENTRAL ALASKA MAP |
*snrk*
Magnitude 6.3 - SULAWESI, INDONESIA
Also not full moon related...
LOL - some like-minded thinker obviously came up with that one! (Was it you? :-)
'Spect so. Japan also?
FGS
Gulity ;^)
FGS
Are they remaining aftershocks of a settling plate
-OR-
The ramp up to new activity?
I wonder if this is another aftershock from the Dec 26 quake. The rupture on the tectonic plate under Indonesia was so huge, there are bound to be more large aftershocks as things settle down.
It can't. That corner of the earth has been grinding itself against itself for eons. Good book: "Krakatoa" about the 1883 volcano obliteration and ensuing tsunami, which was swept people off of hillsides over 100 feet above sea level. Krakatoa is between Sumatra and Java...right in the neighborhood of these last quakes.
Signs of the times...
Given the number of active volcanoes on Hokkaido and Kyushu, so very true. And northeast of Japan is Russia's Kamkatchka (sp?) Peninsula, which is on the fault that is part of the Ring of Fire and home to several quite active volcanoes, too.
Excellent! Are you a graphic artist? Photoshopper? (just curious)
Lest we forget, TOBA, that would make Krakatoa look like a firecracker. The initial quake was just offshore from this very old caldera.
Toba, Indonesia
75,000 years ago
Landsat Multi-Spectral Scanner (MSS) image taken Oct 3, 1973.
- Why is there a giant lake - 100km long and 30 km wide - in the middle of the Indonesia island of Sumatra? Lakes often form in depressions caused by glacial erosion (Great Lakes of USA) or by down-dropping of large blocks of the crust (the lakes of East Africa), but such gentle processes didn't cause Lake Toba in Sumatra.
- In 1949 the Dutch geologist van Bemmelen reported that Lake Toba was surrounded by a vast layer of ignimbrite rocks. Toba was apparently a huge volcano! Later researchers found rhyolite ash similar to that in the ignimbrite around Toba in Malaysia and even 3000 km away in India. And oceanographers discovered a vast dusting of Toba ash on the floor of the eastern Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal. These scientists quickly realized that the Toba eruption, dated at 75,000 years ago, was the most recent truely large eruption on Earth. Bill Rose and Craig Chesner of Michigan Technological University combined all the information on the extent of the Toba volcanic material to deduce that the total amount of erupted material was about 2,800 km3. About 800 km3 was ignimbrite that travelled swiftly over the ground away from the volcano destroying everything in its path, and the remaining 2,000 km3 fell as ash, with the wind blowing most of it to the west. Such a huge eruption probably lasted nearly two weeks. Very few plants, animals or humans around this part of Indonesia would have survived.
The eruption of such a huge amount of volcanic rock, which was previously beneath the earth's surface, naturally caused a great collapse to occur. The collapse formed a caldera, which filled with water creating Lake Toba. Later, the floor of the caldera was uplifted to form Samosir, the large island in the lake. Such uplifts are common in very large calderas, apparently due to the upward pressure of unerupted magma. Toba is probably the largest resurgent caldera on Earth.
- There have been no historic eruptions of Toba, but large earthquakes have occurred, the most recent in 1987 along the southern shore of the lake.
FGS
Thanks for the kudos. I dabble. You can find one of my doodles HERE.
FGS
This shouldn't affect Cindy. Frankly, all us left-coasters are in the "ring of fire" ourselves and the next big one here could happen any time.
(goes finds a heavy desk to hide under)
;-)
You got it all wrong!
This was, and continues to be, Bush's fault.
Silly me, but of course it's Bush's fault. How could I have been so blind? I should have know when I saw all of those satanic salutes the other day!
I see Krakatoa on the map. I read many stories about that cataclysm when I was a kid.
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