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Strong earthquake hits Papua New Guinea (Magnitude 6.5)
The Australian ^ | October 17, 2006

Posted on 10/16/2006 7:43:40 PM PDT by HAL9000

A STRONG earthquake hit Papua New Guinea today.

The US Geological Survey said the 6.5 magnitude quake hit at 9.25am local time, with an epicentre 577km from Port Moresby.


(Excerpt) Read more at theaustralian.news.com.au ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: earthquake; papaunewguinea; papuanewguinea; png; quake; ruhroh
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1 posted on 10/16/2006 7:43:46 PM PDT by HAL9000
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To: HAL9000

IBBFP!


2 posted on 10/16/2006 7:44:41 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (If a pug barks and no one is around to hear it... they hold a grudge for a long time!)
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To: HAL9000

Oh, oh...


3 posted on 10/16/2006 7:44:56 PM PDT by madison10 (Live your life in such a way that the preacher won't have to lie at your funeral.)
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To: Admin Moderator

I misspelled "Papua New Guinea" in the headline. Thanks in advance if you can fix it.


4 posted on 10/16/2006 7:46:39 PM PDT by HAL9000 (Get a Mac - The Ultimate FReeping Machine)
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To: HAL9000

Darwin, Australia could get hit by a tsunami. The city has already been destroyed twice, by the Japanese in WWII and by Cyclone Tracy on Christmas Day 1974.


5 posted on 10/16/2006 7:47:49 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Why can't Republicans stand up to Democrats like they do to terrorists?)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I thought it needed to be greater than an 8 to produce a tsignificant tsunami.


6 posted on 10/16/2006 7:48:37 PM PDT by SlowBoat407 (A living insult to islam since 1959)
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To: HAL9000
USGS info
7 posted on 10/16/2006 7:50:12 PM PDT by HAL9000 (Get a Mac - The Ultimate FReeping Machine)
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To: HAL9000
First the Kona coffee, now the New Guinea coffee...
8 posted on 10/16/2006 7:52:57 PM PDT by null and void ("It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret."--Jackie Joyner-Kersee)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

If my memories of the world atlas are accurate,PNG isn't far from Darwin.


9 posted on 10/16/2006 7:55:01 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative ("An empty limousine pulled up and Hillary Clinton got out")
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Darwin is on the NW side of Australia, and this is to the Northeast of Australia.

And there wasn't a tsunami, it appears, anyway - quake was on land and fairly deep.


10 posted on 10/16/2006 7:55:22 PM PDT by Strategerist (Those who know what's best for us must rise and save us from ourselves)
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To: SlowBoat407

A Magnitude 7.1 earthquake generated a tsunami in 1998 killed over 3,000 people in New Guinea - it caused an underwater landslide.

In general, you do not get OCEAN-wide, rather than local, damaging tsunamis from anything under M 8.0.


11 posted on 10/16/2006 7:57:04 PM PDT by Strategerist (Those who know what's best for us must rise and save us from ourselves)
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To: HAL9000; Aussie Dasher; All

Godzilla????


12 posted on 10/16/2006 8:10:00 PM PDT by SevenofNine ("Step aside Jefe"=Det Lennie Briscoe)
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To: HAL9000

bump


13 posted on 10/16/2006 8:31:35 PM PDT by sport
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To: null and void

What if that little donkey eater didn't test a nuclear device, rather intended to set off a wave of earthquakes? Japan, Hawaii, New Guinea…Holy CRAP!


14 posted on 10/16/2006 9:13:19 PM PDT by dgallo51 (DEMAND IMMEDIATE, OPEN INVESTIGATIONS OF U.S. COMPLICITY IN RWANDAN GENOCIDE!)
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To: Gay State Conservative
The article said it was epicentered about 575 kilometers Northeast of Port Moresby which places it farther from Australia. I hope the damage is minimal and the death toll is nil. Semi-off-topic, there's an archipelago for sale in PNG called The Conflict Islands (named after a British ship I believe)and it comprises 23 islands encompassing over 900 acres. If someone wanted to buy it for me as a Christmas gift...
15 posted on 10/16/2006 9:56:50 PM PDT by Two Kids' Dad (((Vanuatu is another nice place in the South Pacific)))
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To: HAL9000
Damn...what is going onout there?
16 posted on 10/16/2006 9:58:44 PM PDT by RichInOC ("I wanna rock and roll all night...and party every day...")
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To: HAL9000

Bizarre. My parents were in Maui for the 6.5 ish one (and the rest) yesterday. My aunt and uncle live on Papua. Crazy odds of two sets of family members in two different places with earthquakes of nearly the same magnititude in two back to back days. Hopefully we don't get a third set...(though with many of us living in SoCal you'd think we'd have been more apt to have had one! LOL) Maybe it's just our island located family! ;-)


17 posted on 10/16/2006 10:14:28 PM PDT by mfccinsd
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To: HAL9000

Cthulhu is rising!

DOOM!


18 posted on 10/16/2006 10:58:33 PM PDT by NaughtiusMaximus (Bush Assassination Flick. Save your liberal friends a few bucks: the black guy in the tux dunnit.)
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Magnitude 6.5 - NEW BRITAIN REGION,
PAPUA NEW GUINEA


Earthquake Details

Magnitude 6.5 (Strong)
Date-Time Tuesday, October 17, 2006 at 01:25:14 (UTC) = Coordinated Universal Time
Tuesday, October 17, 2006 at 11:25:14 AM = local time at epicenter
Monday, October 16, 2006 at 06:25:14 PM (PDT) - Pacific Daylight
Monday, October 16, 2006 at 09:25:14 PM (EDT) - Eastern Daylight
Location 5.881°S, 150.998°E
Depth 44.1 km (27.4 miles)
Region NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Distances
100 km (65 miles) ESE of Kimbe, New Britain, PNG
165 km (105 miles) ENE of Kandrian, New Britain, PNG
575 km (360 miles) NE of PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea
2400 km (1490 miles) N of BRISBANE, Queensland, Australia

Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 5.2 km (3.2 miles); depth +/- 8.5 km (5.3 miles)
Parameters Nst=207, Nph=207, Dmin=574.9 km, Rmss=0.87 sec, Gp= 22°, M-type=teleseismic moment magnitude (Mw), Version=6
Source USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID ustyac

19 posted on 10/17/2006 7:53:24 PM PDT by bd476
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To: RichInOC

Someone told me today that rumor has it that the explosions in North Korea are causing this. Anyone know if this is possible?


20 posted on 10/17/2006 7:59:43 PM PDT by VA40
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