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Updated: 7.9 Earthquake Tonga (Northeast of Australia)
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Posted on 05/03/2006 9:07:35 AM PDT by silentknight
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TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Breaking News
KEYWORDS: australia; earthquake; fiji; india; indianocean; indoaustralianplate; newzealand; nz; pacific; pacificocean; quake; tsunami; usgs
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To: CedarDave
Yeah, the first was a preliminary magnitude, I wouldn't be surprised if it gets changed again.
TONGA NUKUALOFA should be seeing the first signs of any tsunami right about now.
The mag of the quake doesn't really have much to do with tsunami generation, vertical shift is the main factor.
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posted on
05/03/2006 9:54:27 AM PDT
by
HEY4QDEMS
(Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
To: MineralMan
Writing something ugly? Nah. Inappropriate? Maybe, especially if there is loss of life. IMO, nmh was just posting Bible prophesy. Someone must've gotten a little peed and asked the mods to keep the discussion on topic.
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posted on
05/03/2006 9:55:48 AM PDT
by
sully777
(wWBBD: What would Brian Boitano do?)
To: All
downgraded to a 7.9 now
MSNBC is covering this well.
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posted on
05/03/2006 9:55:49 AM PDT
by
stlnative
(Chris Daughtry - because he always does it better than the original ! - Stay True Chris!)
To: All
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posted on
05/03/2006 9:56:52 AM PDT
by
stlnative
(Chris Daughtry - because he always does it better than the original ! - Stay True Chris!)
To: silentknight
Drudge Reporting
The U.S. National Weather Service warns that a tsunami could strike Fiji within 30 minutes and New Zealand within 90 minutes...
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posted on
05/03/2006 9:57:56 AM PDT
by
Vision
("There are no limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence" Ronald Reagan)
To: Vision
we are about 10 minutes into it - 20 minutes now for Fiji
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posted on
05/03/2006 10:01:11 AM PDT
by
stlnative
(Chris Daughtry - because he always does it better than the original ! - Stay True Chris!)
To: stlnative
OT-is that Tiki Barber the football player on Fox?
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posted on
05/03/2006 10:02:55 AM PDT
by
pnz1
To: MineralMan
Didn't Saint Paul believe HE was living in the end times? LOL
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posted on
05/03/2006 10:07:24 AM PDT
by
AmericanDave
("and I want those lobbyists out of Washington. Do that and I'll say I'm a Republican."Bruce Willis)
To: sully777
No, alot smaller. That one was a 9.1, this one now downgraded as low as 7.8 -- that's over 100 times smaller, if I calculate correctly.
To: sully777
Sorry-- meant to say 10 times smaller. Or about 13 times in this case.
To: sball
"As my Dad who was a Lutheran minster always said, you can't worry about it, all the signs of the end of the Earth have been present throughout history. We are no unique." The bible only says that it will appear that there are more events, diseases etc.
This is due to better world wide communication. In days of old nobody knew what was going on on the other side of the planet, they only saw local events.
To: AmericanDave
"Didn't Saint Paul believe HE was living in the end times? LOL"
Probably. Maybe that's why he didn't get married and have kids. He advised others to do likewise, if they could.
End Times predictions are as common as dirt. Now, we have idiots predicting that 6/6/06 is a likely date. I guess they forgot about 6/6/1906, and 6/6/1806, and so on.
Anticipating the End Times seems to be a popular activity among some Christians. It's almost as though they're looking forward to it. All those non-Christians burning in Hell, and so on. Pretty exciting stuff, I guess.
Whatever blows your dress up, I always say.
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posted on
05/03/2006 10:15:11 AM PDT
by
MineralMan
(non-evangelical atheist)
To: propertius
Since the strongest quake I experienced was 5.6 in New Jersey, I'd say 7.8-8.1 is closer to Indonesian standards by my estimation.
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posted on
05/03/2006 10:16:30 AM PDT
by
sully777
(wWBBD: What would Brian Boitano do?)
To: MineralMan
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posted on
05/03/2006 10:22:17 AM PDT
by
sully777
(wWBBD: What would Brian Boitano do?)
To: sully777
It depends where you are. I've been in a 6.2 and a 5.6 and the latter felt stronger.
I'm not denying that a 7.8 is not a big quake, I'm just saying it's still very different to a 9.1...
To: silentknight
In a book I just read about the 1906 SF earthquake, they stated THAT year had the 2nd highest number of 8+ world wide in recorded history.
It makes me think...
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posted on
05/03/2006 10:23:18 AM PDT
by
Zathras
To: Nathan Zachary
Jesus said that you will hear of wars and rumours of war, earthquakes, etc, but the end is not yet. He then went on to spell what the signs would be. One is the man of sin committing the abomination of desolation (desecrating the temple) which occurs 3 1/2 years after he has confirmed a covenant with the many.
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posted on
05/03/2006 10:25:34 AM PDT
by
Blogger
To: Zathras
Who knows when the ends will be ? only God...
My prayers are with the folks out in the Pacific.
To: silentknight
20 miles is pretty deep, but that's still a big quake. The Hawaiians had better keep an eye out. The Aussies will be waxing their surfboards...
To: MineralMan
>>Whatever blows your dress up, I always say<<
MM, my hubby will not be happy about cleaning the Diet Coke out of this keyboard.....
(LOL)
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posted on
05/03/2006 10:27:47 AM PDT
by
netmilsmom
(To attack one section of Christianity in this day and age, is to waste time.)
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