Posted on 03/28/2005 8:46:46 AM PST by Helmholtz
Dow Jones News Reports at 11:39 "DJ Singapore Official: 7.5 Quake Hits Sumatra - Kyodo"
No other reports yet.
They forgot - AND HAVE A NICE DAY :)
Maybe this is what the grunion are running FROM?
:D
They say it's a lot like riding a Moped - It's a hell of a lot of fun, but you wouldn't want your friends to see you.
Helmholtz must've been typing so fast, his fingers must've been keyed on qwer and uiop.... :-)
Strangely enough this reminds me of a conversation I had over the weekend about sex with a fat woman. The physics are the same.
As opposed to a "slip fault", which is you accidentally telling your wife about having sex with a fat woman? ;)
Seriously, prayers for all those affected by this event.
Just talked to some friends in Medan, the major city of Sumatra. Power was knocked out, but it now getting back on-line. No major damage in that city. But it's a long ways from north Aceh. The northen coastline probably took the brunt of the damage again.
Now is 1:39 AM Tuesday Morning here
That means they may not have heard the news and they'll all be asleep when it arrives. Not good.
As I noted, I've always found that surprising - but you can't argue with the facts.
"....I finished my duty the day after I started...."
DAMN!! You're slow,, man!!! :-)
Earthquakes aren't a point. They happen along a "plane"...a surface between fault faces.
An epicenter just shows where a rupture BEGINS...it moves along the fault like a zipper.
The epicenter of the December quake was at the south end of the rupture zone..the area where the fault moved....which was over 600 miles long.
The epicenter of this quake was actually south of the December rupture zone; if the rupture started there and moved SOUTH, this isn't really an "Aftershock" of the December quake, but a new quake (likely stress-triggered by the Dec. quake though.)
I'm looking for a good graphic of the rupture zones of 2004, 1861, and 1833..(all big subduction quakes off of Sumatra.)
Padang Phones Busy now
LOL. Well maybe the shouting in all caps is supposed to convey a similar message.
Why did you ask the question in the first place? How is it germane to the subject? They also are having a huge soccer tournament there on the beach this month, that is not germane to the subject either.
Tsunami fear as earthquake strikes off SumatraA spokesman for the U.S. Geological Survey told CNN that the earthquake could cause tsunamis. "Certainly evacuations should be occurring. I hope they are," spokesman Don Blakeman said, saying of the earthquake that "it could also cause some local tsunami activity. Even if we do see tsunami activity it won't be as widespread" as December's quake.
Reuters
Mon Mar 28, 2005 6:26 PM GMT
A big proponent of the idea is a popular kook forecaster (Who is unfortunately a real geologist), Jim Berkland of syzyjob.net.
excuse me? I live here tyvm
I know we are just past the Full Moon. I know there was a Full Moon during the Good Friday quake in Alaska in 1964 as well as the 9.0 that hit the same place on December 26th, of last year (2004).
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