[...and still counting until 2014]
Posted on 04/06/2010 3:38:08 PM PDT by SE Mom
7.8-Magnitude Earthquake Hits Sumatra, Indonesia
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100406/ap_on_re_as/as_indonesia_earthquake_4
...A tsunami watch was issued for the region, said the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Honolulu.
Japan’s Kyodo news agency reported blackouts in Medan and Banda Aceh, the capital of Aceh Province.
The quake was 46 kilometers (28.6 miles) deep, the USGS said....
How Ironic that O had cancelled his trip there
Statistically a 7.8 is a huge quake no matter how you want to look at it.
I lost my home in the 6.8 quake in Northridge in 94, I saw a 2,200 square foot home turned literally 90 degrees and rested on its side in Sherman Oaks.....and still in tact.
I couldn't even imagine a 7.8
I guess maybe I react to this kind of news a little bit differently.
Not so very far from the antipode of the Mexican earthquake yesterday. Although a ways. Antipode of the Mexican quake location would be closer to, and southeast of, Madagascar.
Makes me really wonder about all that “crossing the galactic equator” and “pole flipping” stuff.
I was in the San Francisco quake that was 7. I believe, that was indeed scary!
The abstract you link to is from 1967, if you'd taken the time to read it.
But NASA could be full of absolute scientific nonsense, too.
Again, if you'd actually examined the page you linked to rather than getting excited by seeing "NASA" at the top, you'd see it's not NASA research or endorsed by NASA, just a search engine for searching ALL papers published anywhere on astronomy or astrophyics operated by Harvard and the Smithsonian with a NASA grant.
Hopefully you've thus learned a valuable lesson about careful research.
Please hope that the coffee bean harvest is not affected. ! I am addicted to that “Sumatra” whole bean.
oh, and spare enough workers to harvest them.
I am doing my part to aid their economy.
Not the coffee! No!
You're RANDOMLY going to have, say, 6 7.0+ earthquakes in a three month period (or even, say, 7, or perhaps 8), and then perhaps in the next three months have 3 or 2 or 1.
The basic point is that, when 4.5 M 7.0+ quakes in three months is normal, and you have 6, it's not time to start planning for the Apocalypse or casting about for wacky explanatory theories.
In the past few years, there have been stretches of months on end with unusually low numbers of strong earthquakes. However, nobody starts a thread in "Breaking" entitled "NOT MANY STRONG QUAKES LATELY!"
Don’t the beans they harvest from bird dung come from there?
we have gravity because the earth sucks.
GASP !
I HOPE NOT.
OH my!! Things are really heating up underground! Prayers for these people.
I don’t think you need to worry too much about it - that stuff costs like $100.00 an ounce. I think.
[...and still counting until 2014]
If it becomes unavailable try the Peruvian beans. Man am I hooked on that. However, they are getting more expensive and harder to find.
OH my!! Things are really heating up underground! Prayers for these people.
Australia possibly. Wrong Ocean for Hawaii. Wave would be shielded by the bulk of Sumatra, and kind of messed up by the large Islands of the Indonesian archepeligo, as well as the Philipines.
Sri Lanka, Madagakar, India and the whole east coast of Africa, including Somalia and Kenya, had best be alert, if there was a Tsunami generated. Depth is shown at USGS as 19.3 miles, fairly deep. Depth at Pacific Tsunami Warning Center is deeper still, 31.1 miles. However they do seem to have issued a Local Tsunami Watch, but the link to the text is bad. But the arrival times are as indicated below:
ESTIMATED INITIAL TSUNAMI WAVE ARRIVAL TIMES AT FORECAST POINTS WITHI THE WARNING AND WATCH AREAS ARE GIVEN BELOW. ACTUAL ARRIVAL TIMES MAY DIFFER AND THE INITIAL WAVE MAY NOT BE THE LARGEST. A TSUNAMI IS A SERIES OF WAVES AND THE TIME BETWEEN SUCCESSIVE WAVES CAN BE FIVE MINUTES TO ONE HOUR.
LOCATION FORECAST POINT COORDINATES ARRIVAL TIME
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INDONESIA SIMEULUE 2.5N 96.0E 2244Z 06 APR
BELAWAN 3.8N 98.8E 0237Z 07 APR
ADDITIONAL
When you have lost everything you own, do you really think a statistic matters?
I'll tell you it doesn't because it is true.
I will tell you that a 7.8 is a huge quake, no matter how you want to slice it.
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