HK observatory reports big quake in Indonesia

Reuters ^ | 1/24/05

[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.

[Truth666]

Thousands of residents in Palu ran to higher ground after the quake, witnesses and police said. Most of the patients at the city's main Undata hospital fled the building, said Dr Riri Lamadjido

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Prayers for the earth to settle down.

[bd476]

Magnitude 6.3 - NICOBAR ISLANDS, INDIA REGION
2005 January 24 04:16:48 UTC

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

A strong earthquake occurred at 04:16:48 (UTC) on Monday, January 24, 2005. The magnitude 6.3 event has been located in the NICOBAR ISLANDS, INDIA REGION. (This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.)

Magnitude	6.3
Date-Time	Monday, January 24, 2005 at 04:16:48 (UTC) = Coordinated Universal Time Monday, January 24, 2005 at 9:46:48 AM = local time at epicenter
Location	7.375°N, 92.453°E
Depth	30 km (18.6 miles) set by location program
Region	NICOBAR ISLANDS, INDIA REGION
Distances	120 km (75 miles) SW of Misha, Nicobar Islands, India 380 km (235 miles) WNW of Banda Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia 1125 km (700 miles) SW of BANGKOK, Thailand 2835 km (1770 miles) SE of NEW DELHI, Delhi, India
Location Uncertainty	horizontal +/- 6.2 km (3.9 miles); depth fixed by location program
Parameters	Nst=147, Nph=147, Dmin=>999 km, Rmss=0.87 sec, Gp= 65°, M-type=moment magnitude (Mw), Version=7
Source	USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID	ustrad

[kcvl]

bttt

[bd476]

6.3 Earthquake ping.

[bd476]

Magnitude 6.3 - SULAWESI, INDONESIA
2005 January 23 20:10:12 UTC

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

A strong earthquake occurred at 20:10:12 (UTC) on Sunday, January 23, 2005. The magnitude 6.3 event has been located in SULAWESI, INDONESIA. (This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.)

Magnitude	6.3
Date-Time	Sunday, January 23, 2005 at 20:10:12 (UTC) = Coordinated Universal Time Monday, January 24, 2005 at 4:10:12 AM = local time at epicenter
Location	1.250°S, 119.794°E
Depth	10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program
Region	SULAWESI, INDONESIA
Distances	40 km (25 miles) SSW of Palu, Sulawesi, Indonesia 330 km (205 miles) E of Balikpapan, Kalimantan, Indonesia 430 km (270 miles) N of Ujung Pandang, Sulawesi, Indonesia 1545 km (960 miles) ENE of JAKARTA, Java, Indonesia
Location Uncertainty	horizontal +/- 11.5 km (7.1 miles); depth fixed by location program
Parameters	Nst= 45, Nph= 45, Dmin=>999 km, Rmss=1.25 sec, Gp= 58°, M-type=moment magnitude (Mw), Version=7
Source	USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID	ustqar

[risk]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/Quakes/ustqar.htm
(pretty much the same as the above post)

[johniegrad]

What's the over and under for how long it takes the first Islamic cleric to claim this is a work of God?

[Irishguy]

well dude, last week i read that one of the Saudi imans said that the reason the tsunami happened at christmas was that an islamic country had let christians in to sunbathe and defile an islamic country and it was allah wrath...


another case of allah fubar...

[kattracks]

Or for the UN to blame this on the US?

[JudyinCanada]

No, this was probably allah punishing them for accepting aid from infidels.

[jimtorr]

This is just another aftershock, I suppose. Of course, quakes of this magnitude were common in that area even before the big one last month.

[RaceBannon]

major bump

[montag813]

No sympathy for Muslim dictatorships.

[Strategerist]

Not an aftershock; completely different system of faults and nowhere near the area that slipped in the Sumatran quake.

Considering it occured in an area with a high concentration of Christians the usual sort of moronic gloatfest over the quake as punishment seems even more stupid than usual as well.

Not a particularly big deal or notable as a quake.

[Space Wrangler]

Three minutes.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

It's all Bush's "fault" (pun sort of intended)!

[ForGod'sSake]

[Lijahsbubbe]

Full moon copy. (flame suit on, ready for hits)