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Scientists: Sumatra quake longest ever recorded- big enough to 'vibrate the whole planet '
CNN ^ | 5-19-05 | Marsha Walton

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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The quake released an amount of energy equal to a 100 gigaton bomb, according to Roger Bilham, professor of geological sciences at the University of Colorado.

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....

1 posted on 05/19/2005 1:25:55 PM PDT by Rakkasan1
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To: Rakkasan1

Well maybe if you did those things, disasters like this wouldn't happen. /sarcasm


2 posted on 05/19/2005 1:28:00 PM PDT by SaveTheChief (<insert clever, witty, or silly statement here>)
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To: Rakkasan1

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!


3 posted on 05/19/2005 1:31:29 PM PDT by henkster (When democrats talk of "the rich," they are referring to anyone with a private sector job.)
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To: Rakkasan1

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...


4 posted on 05/19/2005 1:36:12 PM PDT by MD_Willington_1976
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To: Rakkasan1

The planet ate a few too many burritos this time.


5 posted on 05/19/2005 1:40:24 PM PDT by thoughtomator (A government-funded artist is an incompetent whore)
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To: henkster

You forgot the Koran in the crapper....


6 posted on 05/19/2005 1:42:47 PM PDT by freebilly (Go Santa Cruz Baseball! Win CCS!)
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"Well maybe if you did those things, disasters like this wouldn't happen. /sarcasm"

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

7 posted on 05/19/2005 1:45:37 PM PDT by chs68
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To: Rakkasan1

I believe the one in the 1974 movie Earthquake must've lasted at least 15 minutes. :^)


8 posted on 05/19/2005 1:46:23 PM PDT by eyedigress
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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...

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.

9 posted on 05/19/2005 1:46:28 PM PDT by Strategerist
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To: freebilly

Must be all that water pressure!


10 posted on 05/19/2005 1:51:42 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty
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To: henkster

heh,heh.


11 posted on 05/19/2005 1:57:25 PM PDT by twntaipan (demonRATs: The true heirs of Eichman)
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To: Strategerist
Previous large tsunamis have been documented in the area by examing flooded forests, etc. There are also Indian legends about them.

I'm weary of legends. Just about every single religion has a story/fable about a Great Flood.

12 posted on 05/19/2005 1:59:08 PM PDT by BostonianRightist (I don't trust a government I can't shoot back at.)
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The planet ate a few too many burritos this time.

Must be the huge increase in the hispanic population.

13 posted on 05/19/2005 2:00:00 PM PDT by BostonianRightist (I don't trust a government I can't shoot back at.)
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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.


14 posted on 05/19/2005 2:02:43 PM PDT by Strategerist
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And it would all be Bush's fault.

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)

15 posted on 05/19/2005 2:03:23 PM PDT by SaveTheChief (<insert clever, witty, or silly statement here>)
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To: Rakkasan1

"big enough to vibrate the whole planet"

Sure it wasn't just a N.O.W. convention?


16 posted on 05/19/2005 2:05:00 PM PDT by Pessimist
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"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.

If Mr. Ammon's estimate is correct, the quake lasted at most ten minutes. I wonder which stupid reporter made that mistake.

17 posted on 05/19/2005 2:05:43 PM PDT by SolidSupplySide
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This planet survived an episode that DESTROYED all life on earth save some insects, rodents and mammals in the sea, I am sure it will survive SUV's.

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.

18 posted on 05/19/2005 2:10:50 PM PDT by PISANO (We will not tire......We will not falter.......We will NOT FAIL!!! .........GW Bush [Oct 2001])
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To: Strategerist

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


19 posted on 05/19/2005 2:22:40 PM PDT by MD_Willington_1976
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To: Rakkasan1

Damn.

9.1 to 9.3

Just DAMN!!


20 posted on 05/19/2005 2:43:42 PM PDT by Danae ( Anál nathrach, orth' bháis's bethad, do chél dénmha)
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