Posted on 05/03/2006 9:07:35 AM PDT by silentknight
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Prayers for the penguins....
What ever you say!
LOL!!!
Others are free to scrutinize events.
Those birth pangs .... .
I know you'll understand what I mean ... .
We're all living in our own end times because we all die.
You wrote message #20, which has been pulled. I know that because someone replied to it.
As for my opinion about God and the Bible, I have read the latter many times, and disbelieve in the former. I have no enmity against either.
I'll check this one out. It received virtually no mention on the morning TV news.
Update time = Thu May 4 2:00:04 UTC 2006
Here is a list of the earthquakes located by the USGS and contributing networks in the S Pacific area. Most recent events are at the top. (Some early events may be obscured by later ones on the map.)
Click on the underlined portion of an earthquake record in the list below for more information.
Earthquake Ping List. Please send a Freepmail if you want to be added to
or removed from this list.
better late than never? lol ... wondered earlier in the day where my ping was. ;)
This isn't another one, right? This is the same one from this morning?
| Magnitude | 7.9 (Major) |
|---|---|
| Date-Time |
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| Location | 20.088°S, 174.219°W |
| Depth | 55 km (34.2 miles) set by location program |
| Region | TONGA |
| Distances | 160 km (100 miles) NE of NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga 160 km (100 miles) S of Neiafu, Tonga 460 km (285 miles) S of Hihifo, Tonga 2145 km (1330 miles) NNE of Auckland, New Zealand |
| Location Uncertainty | horizontal +/- 6.1 km (3.8 miles); depth fixed by location program |
| Parameters | Nst=188, Nph=188, Dmin=>999 km, Rmss=0.83 sec, Gp= 29°, M-type=moment magnitude (Mw), Version=7 |
| Source | USGS NEIC (WDCS-D) |
| Event ID | usmgas |
The broad-scale tectonics of the earthquake region are dominated by the relative convergence of the Pacific and Australia plates. The Pacific plate subducts westward beneath the Australia plate at the Tonga trench. At the latitude of the earthquake, the Pacific plate moves westward with respect to the interior of the Australia plate at a velocity of about 77 mm/year. The eastern edge of the broad Australia plate may itself be viewed as a collection of small plates or microplates that move with respect to each other and with respect to the Pacific plate and the Australia plate interior.
In terms of numbers of earthquakes, the broad-scale Australia/Pacific plate boundary is one of the most active in the world. Earthquakes occur on the thrust-fault boundary between the Australia and Pacific plates, within the Pacific plate, and within and on the boundaries of the small plates that together compose the eastern edge of the overall Australia plate. On the basis of currently available information, we infer that the earthquake of May 3, 2006, occurred within the subducted Pacific plate proper or on the interface between the Pacific plate and the Australia plate.
Tsunami Information
The earthquake locations and magnitudes cited in these bulletins are very preliminary, and may disagree with the more accurate USGS locations and magnitudes computed using more extensive data sets.
You may be right ... .
I find it apalling that quoting a Bible verse on FR is now considered offensive and needs to be pulled?
Perhaps the mod can explain WHY this was pulled?
Matt.24:7
[7] For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
Mark.13:8
[8] For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
Luke 21:11
[11] And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
OTOH, maybe it shouldn't be so surprising ... .
Thanks for the Ping, Global2010. I knew you'd be up on this early.
SheLion, yes I'm just getting to the Ping List on the big one now. There's a list of the aftershocks posted here.
BigLook, thank God there have been no reports of widespread injuries or casualties.
Experiment 6-2-6, hopefully you felt none of the aftershocks from this big one.
It looks like all is well after the earthquake.
Tonga has 'lucky' quake escape
11:00 AM May 4
The Pacific nation of Tonga has been spared major damage after being rocked by an earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale.
There are no reports of injuries in the capital Nuku'Alofa.
The earthquake was recorded off the north-east coast of Tonga, 160 kilometres north-east of the capital, and about 16 kilometres below the surface.
The Prime Minister of Tonga, Fred Sevele, says if initial reports prove to be correct, the people of Tonga have had a lucky escape.
"The preliminary damage assessment conducted by the police throughout the group indicated no injuries, no fatalities or severe damages to essential services, so as you say we're lucky," he said.
"It's quite an unexpected blessing and I'm very happy with it."
Australian seismologist Dr Marion Leiber also says it is lucky a tsunami was not generated by the quake.
Dr Leiber says it is a very active area because it is where the Australian plate meets the Pacific Plate.
"That is a very big earthquake, that's what ... seismologists that are not prone to superlatives describe as a 'great earthquake' and on average you get about two of those in [the] world [in] a year," she said.
"It's interesting because we've had the last sort of 10, 20 years several sort of great earthquakes along that particular margin of the Pacific Plate and fortunately none of them have generated large tsunamis."
'Luna Park ride'
Peter Slatery, a Darwin expatriate living in Tonga, says his house in Tongatapu was badly shaken.
He says it is lucky there has been little damage because Tonga's Disaster Management Team is currently in Australia on a tsunami exercise called "pacific wave".
"And I'm really surprised there's been hardly any reports of damage," he said.
"I mean you see buildings here with roofs - with the tin held down by rocks and they seem to all be standing - maybe they're just flexible enough."
Andrew Stainlay lives in the capital and was woken by the earthquake.
"I've never felt anything like it. It's like one of those rides at Luna Park or something in Sydney," he said.
"You just shake, just really heavy shaking and I guess because I was on that second storey it was more exacerbated by the roof creaking and everything just swaying - it was quite an incredible feeling."
The earthquake struck at 4.26 am local time.
The Tonga islands are an archipelago east of Australia, south-east of Fiji and north-east of New Zealand.
-ABC/AFP/Reuters
Do you have a working link for this?
This was the link:
http://cable.optusnet.com.au/news/story/abc/20060504/12/international/1630464.inp
However, I note that the list of news items at the site has now changed.
I have checked and the link is still active.
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