[Responsibility2nd]

[Responsibility2nd]

One year later.

FReeper prayers still outgoing to the victims.

[Strategerist]

I don't see what's the big deal about it being picked up in Oklahoma is.


Hobbyists with a few hundred or a few thousand dollars worth of equipment can build their own seismometer that will pretty much pick up any Magnitude 6+ quake in the world.

[Dog Gone]

It was the Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami of Dec. 26, 2004

Even given the international date line, it didn't occur on December 26, did it?

[proudofthesouth]

I'll never forget being online here at FR when the first reports of it started being posted. I stayed up all night reading them.

[rawcatslyentist]

Sir Bedevere: ...and that, my liege, is how we know the Earth to be banana shaped.
King Arthur: This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedevere. Explain again how sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes.

But then again maybe that IS what they used.

[nmh]

What a sad event.

Remembering ... .

[metmom]

"The global sea level actually rose by a millimeter, and the very shape of the Earth changed enough to slightly lengthen the day."

For real? It was that bad?

I remember watching it on TV as reports came in. The before and after photos where entire villages had been obliterated were unreal. It certainly has been a rough year for the planet.

[Arthur McGowan]

The quake itself lasted for 10 minutes, a total outrage compared to the usual few seconds of shaking associated with even huge earthquakes.

This is a detail I've never heard before. Unbelievable!

[backhoe]

-The Great Wave- Sumatra Quake and tsunami of 2004--