Posted on 05/19/2005 1:25:51 PM PDT by Rakkasan1
(CNN) -- Dramatic new data from the December 26, 2004, Sumatran-Andaman earthquake that generated deadly tsunamis show the event created the longest fault rupture and the longest duration of faulting ever observed, according to three reports by an international group of seismologists published Thursday in the journal "Science."
"Normally, a small earthquake might last less than a second; a moderate sized earthquake might last a few seconds. This earthquake lasted between 500 and 600 seconds (at least 10 minutes)," said Charles Ammon, associate professor of geosciences at Penn State University.
The quake released an amount
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And that power lasted longer than any quake ever recorded.
and yet I'm told driving an SUV will wreck the planet and I have to recycle all my beer bottles....
Well maybe if you did those things, disasters like this wouldn't happen. /sarcasm
This was obviously the result of chloroflourcarbons in the upper atmosphere, CO2 in the lower atmosphere, radon gas in my basement, mold in my closet, a Republican in the White House and second hand smoke at the corner bar!
It's all so obvious!
They've predicted more than that for the major subduction zone off the west coast...the tsunami however is supposed to head west across the Pacific...The Japanese have documented these "quakeless" tsunamis for quite some time now...
The planet ate a few too many burritos this time.
You forgot the Koran in the crapper....
NO! NO! NO!
Even if everyone on the planet were to stop drving SUV's and start recycling all beer bottles, disasters like this would still occur.
And it would all be Bush's fault.
/sarcasm
I believe the one in the 1974 movie Earthquake must've lasted at least 15 minutes. :^)
Any tsunami would head both west AND east, and hit British Columbia,Washington, Oregon, and Northern California much worse than Japan. Previous large tsunamis have been documented in the area by examing flooded forests, etc. There are also Indian legends about them.
However, the Indians weren't keeping dated written records; the Japanese were, so that's how the last major Cascadia tsunami was documented (down to the hour it occured) in 1700.
Must be all that water pressure!
heh,heh.
I'm weary of legends. Just about every single religion has a story/fable about a Great Flood.
Must be the huge increase in the hispanic population.
That's why it's not the primary documentation of the quakes; the combination of Japanese written records and carbon dating of deposits in "drowned forests" where the land suddenly sank is used to compute the times of the quakes.
So it's the game of one upsmanship we're playing, huh? :-P
If it weren't for these Christian Fundamentalists, the world could finally rid themselves of racial and religious prejudice, and people like George Bush, who is the cause of all the world's problems.
/sarcasm (yet again)
"big enough to vibrate the whole planet"
Sure it wasn't just a N.O.W. convention?
If Mr. Ammon's estimate is correct, the quake lasted at most ten minutes. I wonder which stupid reporter made that mistake.
The leftist nitwits ONLY can predict doom and gloom. They have no ideas other than those that predict chaos and calamity, label all "NON-LEFTISTS" as racists and those that say NO to any idea NOT commensurate with those I just delineated.
I know about the Thunderbird etc...My friends are Kwakwak'awakw Nation, Wei-Wai-Kum of Campbell River, their grandmother told us the story of the Thunderbird
Damn.
9.1 to 9.3
Just DAMN!!
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