Posted on 02/05/2005 4:12:17 PM PST by Nick Danger
Is there a tsunami alert out?
Why have we quit hearing about the last quake and tsunami? It was non-stop coverage and now nothing and of course the tragedy continues.
Michael Jackson is more important?
I saw a bulletin earlier, and they weren't expecting anything major along the U.S. coastline. They still were working the numbers for the Western Pacific.
Does this mean there were four quakes in a row? Two of which were 7.0 and 7.1????
05Feb2005 12:23:17.6 5.4N 123.6E540 mb=5.9 M*GSR MINDANAO, PHILIPPINE ISLAN1534
05Feb2005 12:23:17.7 5.4N 123.4E510 mb=7.0 M*EMS MINDANAO, PHILIPPINE ISLAN1324
05Feb2005 12:23:15.8 5.4N 123.2E486 M =7.1 M*NEI MINDANAO, PHILIPPINE ISLAN1300
05Feb2005 12:23:16.5 5.4N 123.3E494 M =6.9 M*NEI MINDANAO, PHILIPPINE ISLAN1253
Greta Van OJ thinks so.
Forgive my ignorance...
what's a Red Puma?
I was reading the "crawler" across the bottom of FOX an hour or so ago, and it said that in Indonesia, they're still recovering up to 1000 bodies a day....something like 170,000 confirmed dead and over 140,000 missing and likely dead. Hard to imagine.
Nevermind..
I finally noticed the link :)
How do they tell if there's been any vertical displacement?
Not sure. I do know they have a lot better detection equipment in the Pacific than they do in the Indian Ocean.
I think those are readings of the same event from multiple monitoring stations.
UH-OH! Looks like the earth is cracking up from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific.
Watch out, California!
Good source of all current earthquates
http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/
this particular one is at
http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/neic_uda2.html
This is a question for strategerist. He knows everything about eartquakes.
This one was 300 miles under the sea, so no damage expected.
Magnitude 7.1 CELEBES SEA
Saturday, February 05, 2005 at 12:23:15 UTC
Preliminary Earthquake Report
U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center
World Data Center for Seismology, Denver
The following is a release by the United States Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center: A major earthquake occurred IN THE CELEBES SEA, about 215 km (130 miles) southeast of Zamboanga, Mindanao, Philippines or 465 km (290 miles) north-northwest of Manado, Sulawesi, Indonesia at 5:23 AM MST, Feb 5, 2005 (8:23 PM local time in Celebes Sea). The magnitude and location may be revised when additional data and further analysis results are available. No reports of damage have been received at this time, and because of the depth of this earthquake (500 km or 310 miles), no significant damage is expected.
By the muslim area.
.................. TSUNAMI INFORMATION BULLETIN .................. THIS MESSAGE IS FOR INFORMATION ONLY. THERE IS NO TSUNAMI WARNING OR WATCH IN EFFECT. AN EARTHQUAKE HAS OCCURRED WITH THESE PRELIMINARY PARAMETERS ORIGIN TIME - 1223Z 05 FEB 2005 COORDINATES - 5.5 NORTH 123.4 EAST LOCATION - MINDANAO PHILIPPINE ISLANDS DEPTH - 550 KM MAGNITUDE - 6.9 EVALUATION A DESTRUCTIVE TSUNAMI WAS NOT GENERATED BASED ON EARTHQUAKE AND HISTORICAL TSUNAMI DATA. THIS WILL BE THE ONLY BULLETIN ISSUED FOR THIS EVENT UNLESS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION BECOMES AVAILABLE.
The key here is the depth, 310 miles deep. Since a tsunami needs sea floor movement to generate, 310 miles deep is wayyyy too deep to make a significant tsunami.
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