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To: JustRight

A scientist on the radio last week predicted that, due to the pressure built up from the December quake, a large one was coming soon to other faults in that area. Not good...


8 posted on 03/28/2005 8:54:16 AM PST by Portnoy (Fahrenheit 451...Today's Temperature is hotter than you think...)
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To: Portnoy

per the Weather Channel it was the same fault line


13 posted on 03/28/2005 8:56:55 AM PST by eyespysomething (It starts off as a drum circle, next thing you know you've got a college.)
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To: Portnoy

This one looks to be in almost the same spot, maybe a little south of the tsunami quake.


14 posted on 03/28/2005 8:57:02 AM PST by thoughtomator (Order "Judges Gone Wild!" Only $19.95 have your credit card handy!)
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To: Portnoy

The epicentral location is just where the quake started; the epicenter is at the southern limit of the December quake rupture; if the rupture propagated southwards, it's quite possible this is a rupture of the section that went in 1833 and had been heavily studied by Kerry Sieh at Caltech (and had been expected to rupture in a large quake even before the December quake.

And yes, it is one of the areas that stress actually increased after the December quake; the other area is on land in Northern Sumatra, a San Andreas like strike-slip fault.

Depth is hard to estimate, this was a bit deeper if the NEIC depth is accurate. It may or may not have produced a tsunami.

Also the magnitude, as always, might turn out to be bigger after more study. It's actually impossible to estimate the mag of a really big quake till after hours of data have been recorded.


27 posted on 03/28/2005 8:59:47 AM PST by Strategerist
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