Strong earthquake hits Indonesia, tsunami warning issued

Reuters (excerpt) ^ | August 25, 2008

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Excerpt -

JAKARTA, Aug 26 (Reuters) - A strong undersea earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale struck off Indonesia's Java island on Tuesday, prompting authorities to issue a tsunami warning, a meteorological agency official said

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[dandelion]

Prayers for all. May God protect and keep His little children in harm’s way...

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

UPDATE

Indonesia lifts tsunami warning after quake off
Java 26 Aug 2008 03:56:44 GMT

Source: Reuters

JAKARTA, Aug 26 (Reuters) - Indonesia has lifted a tsunami
warning issed after an undersea earthquake struck off West
Java on Tuesday, a meteorological agency official said on
Tuesday.

[dandelion]

I’m grateful to God it’s off - and I hope it stays that way. One tsunami in a lifetime is enough...

[Wacka]

5.8 not that big. The big one was > 1000X bigger.

[bd476]

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Magnitude 5.8 - SUNDA STRAIT, INDONESIA
2008 August 26 03:07:32 UTC

Earthquake Details
Magnitude 5.8
Date-Time

• Tuesday, August 26, 2008 at 03:07:32 UTC
• Tuesday, August 26, 2008 at 10:07:32 AM at epicenter
• Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
  Monday, August 25, 2008 at 11:07:32 PM (EDT) - Eastern Daylight (New York, Toronto)
  Monday, August 25, 2008 at 10:07:32 PM (EST) - Eastern Standard (Jamaica)
  Monday, August 25, 2008 at 10:07:32 PM (CDT) - Central Daylight (Winnipeg, Chicago, Mexico City)
  Monday, August 25, 2008 at 09:07:32 PM (CST) - Central Standard (Regina, Costa Rica)
  Monday, August 25, 2008 at 09:07:32 PM (MDT) - Mountain Daylight (Calgary, Denver Mazatlan)
  Monday, August 25, 2008 at 08:07:32 PM (MST) - Mountain Standard (Phoenix)
  Monday, August 25, 2008 at 08:07:32 PM (PDT) - Pacific Daylight (Vancouver, Los Angeles, Tijuana)
  

Location 6.381°S, 104.391°E
Depth 43.5 km (27.0 miles)
Region SUNDA STRAIT, INDONESIA
Distances

140 km (85 miles) SW of T.-Telukbetung, Sumatra, Indonesia
260 km (165 miles) W of JAKARTA, Java, Indonesia
275 km (170 miles) WNW of Sukabumi, Java, Indonesia
355 km (220 miles) W of Bandung, Java, Indonesia

Magnitude 5.8 - SUNDA STRAIT, INDONESIA

[BIGLOOK]

Depth 43.5 km (27.0 miles)

Pretty deep to cause a seismic sea wave, BD. Might have some local high surf for a bit.

[bd476]

There was a 6.6 magnitude earthquake in Western Xizang, Tibet Autonomous Region on Monday, August 25th, 2008.

Magnitude 6.6 - WESTERN XIZANG
2008 August 25 13:22:02 UTC

Earthquake Details Magnitude 6.6
Date-Time

Monday, August 25, 2008 at 13:22:02 UTC
Monday, August 25, 2008 at 09:22:02 PM at epicenter

Location 30.899°N, 83.623°E
Depth 35 km (21.7 miles) set by location program
Region WESTERN XIZANG
Distances

230 km (140 miles) NE of Jumla, Nepal
295 km (185 miles) N of Pokhara, Nepal
370 km (230 miles) NNE of Nepalganj, Nepal
390 km (245 miles) NNW of KATHMANDU, Nepal

Magnitude 6.6 - WESTERN XIZANG

[M. Espinola]

There's been yet another earthquake.

5.9 magnitude earthquake hits New Zealand

[M. Espinola]

WHERE IT STRUCK: The 5.9 quake was felt in Hawke's Bay and the surrounding region, New Zealand, 26 August 2008.

QUAKE ACTIVITY: The seismicity map shows the current earthquake (indicated by a star) in the context of ten years of 'deep' (greater than 40 km) seismicity (indicated by coloured points). The inset shows a depth cross section of the seismicity and current earthquake, projected onto the plane W-E.

[BIGLOOK]

When you look at the Ring of Fire and the patterns of earthquake activity, do you notice that events occur along Meridians?

[M. Espinola]

I was thinking the same thing in terms of the eastern portion of the Ring of Fire.

Monday morning (Manila time) there was a 5.7 quake rocks Visayas, parts of Mindanao--Phivolcs

[bd476]

BIGLOOK wrote: "Depth 43.5 km (27.0 miles) Pretty deep to cause a seismic sea wave, BD. Might have some local high surf for a bit."

Lol, I don't work for Reuters and didn't write the article for them. Reuters also said that the earthquake's magnitude was 6.6, and of course as I posted above, it was only 5.8 magnitude. However, the initial reading might have been 6.6. As in the case of most earthquakes, there is usually an adjustment of the magnitude.

As far as the tsunami warning reported in the Reuters article, it's pretty much standard procedure to issue a tsunami advisory and in some cases, a warning on the chance that there will be one. The reporting agencies then couldn't be accused of failing to inform.

The December 26, 2004 9.0 Sumatra Earthquake had a initial depth reading of 24.9 miles. The combination of the magnitude 9.0 quake occurring in a subduction fault zone created that devastating killer tsunami.

[bd476]

That's interesting, BIGLOOK.

[bd476]

Thanks M. Espinola. You're right, that's a very active earthquake zone.

Magnitude 5.4 NORTH ISLAND OF NEW ZEALAND
Monday, August 25, 2008 at 11:25:17 UTC
Historic Seismicity

[bd476]

BIGLOOK wrote: "When you look at the Ring of Fire and the patterns of earthquake activity, do you notice that events occur along Meridians?"

BIGLOOK, because earth's meridians are hypothetical imaginary lines, I have been waiting to hear something about your doubting the accuracy of epicenter locations or perhaps that you thought that USGS would make the generalization that the earthquake occurred exactly on a meridian, etc.

[Alia]

Wasn’t it just last week China had another earthquake, farther inland?

[Calm_Cool_and_Elected]

Glad you’re outta there ping!

[Cold Heart]

I have also noted that each one crosses a parallel :)