Indonesia - Sumatra Earthquake - Evacuations Under way (Update - 8.5 quake )

Dow Jones News | 3/28/05

[Helmholtz]

Dow Jones News Reports at 11:39 "DJ Singapore Official: 7.5 Quake Hits Sumatra - Kyodo"

No other reports yet.

[killjoy]

I am in Bangkok in a 14th floor condo. The quake was VERY noticeable here. We were watching a movie and my girlfriend noticed the room moving. It kept swaying and we headed down the stairs. We just came back up to the room.

[SuziQ]

I often wonder how differently the war would have turned out if not for Midway.

I'm always astounded when I realize that the Battle of Midway took place within 6 months of the attack on Pearl Harbor, but it STILL took almost four years to finally defeat the Japanese! They had gotten themselves SO entrenched in the lands around the Pacific.

I used to watch a lot of old WWII movies with my Daddy when I was growing up, and wondered why the 'Coast Watchers' were always Australian. It wasn't until many years later, when looking at a globe,that I realized just how close the Japanese were to being able to attack Australia from the places on which they'd already established a presence! THEN I understood why the Aussies were so concerned about it!

[Truth666]

Let's not forget that the

second largest genocide of christians

in the XX century took place in the island of East Timor

[cripplecreek]

"The thing about the moon business is the people infatuated with the moon relationship only remember the ones on full or new moons and forget the others."



Kinda like bad things coming in 3s. People separate events into 3s to make it so.

[Hand em their arse]

"well, maa dadyy and i were looking for a couple of matching suits...... we need a 52 Fat....... and 22 dwarf.."

[F.J. Mitchell]

I expect that would vary by time zones across asia, same as here.

Right there at the International date line though, it seemed to me that we just switched from today to tomorrow-same time.

[Odyssey-x]

If that is true, the Christian god isn't too good with calendars.

<tinfoil-hat> You're right, must be the people testing the tesla earthquake weapons. </tinfoil-hat>

[Central Scrutiniser]

I was in Phuket recently, the beaches were in great shape, better than ever, and very few hotels were shut down. I love that country.

[diamond6]

How strange that the first was the day after Christmas, and now the day after Easter.

I haven't read all the posts, I'm sure others have posted this strange coincidence.

[WestCoastGal]

Interesting article since there is a full moon now. Having lived in California for most of my life, I remember earthquakes happening mostly during full moon or eclipse events.

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Simple diagram showing the relative position of the Earth to the Sun at its maximum periods of stress. A stress that on the 26th of December 2004 was further increased by a Full Moon that was also at apogee - it’s furthest point from the Earth.





Simple argument.

In simple terms the above situation can be illustrated quite graphically. It is like a heavily laden lorry attempting to turn a tight bend while travelling at speed - in the Earth’s case around 50,000 miles of speed. The lorry struggles to stay on the road with brakes screeching, until momentum restored it continues peacefully along its way. We believe the Earth does exactly the same, with the Winter and Summer Solstices forming decisive periods when through the stresses of its orbital procession the Earth is more vulnerable to catastrophic disasters. Indeed it was almost at the exact point last year that a fearful Earthquake in Iran wiped out the historically important city of Bam and with it around 50,000 lives. This was again a disaster just a few days after the Winter Solstice and almost exactly on the Full Moon.

Of course not every Winter Solstice ends in a disaster of the sort witnessed in Iran and the South East Asian catastrophe. So what then makes the vital difference?

The Earth/Moon system.

As it turns out the South East Asian catastrophe happened on the 26th December - exactly the day of the Full Moon, and this is fundamental to our theory. Many more disasters happen around the Full Moon, and this was not just any Full Moon. It coincided with the Moon at apogee, which is when the Moon is at its furthest reach from the Earth. It is vital to understand this because at this time the Earth undergoes special strains to hold on to the Moon and restrain it from breaking free into space. This is similar to the way the Sun holds on to the Earth preventing it from wandering off towards the stars.

Two separate forces.

We see then that on December 26th 2004 the Earth was subject to intense forces from two separate directions. One from the Sun holding it on its yearly orbit, the other from the Moon at its furthest reach at a phase when its earthquake potential is at its highest. We must also remember that the centre of balance in the Earth/ Moon system is not some invisible point in space but a point deep beneath the surface of this planet. At certain Lunar cycles this is bound to create enormous stresses and we believe that the combination of the Full Moon, the Moon at apogee, and the Winter Solstice caused stresses that eventually gave way to one of the biggest Earthquakes ever recorded and consequently the largest humanitarian disaster of modern times. It has to be said that the combination of all these events occurring at the same time is extremely rare as is the nature of the catastrophe unleashed.

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An example of how great the forces behind this disaster really were is explained by a prominent group of British geologists. They calculated that the forces involved in the original earthquake that spawned the deadly Tsunami’s measured 9 on the Richter scale. As a matter of comparison this equates to the total power of all the earthquakes to have taken place everywhere in the world for the last five years going off in just one place at the same time - a truly staggering explosion of power.

[JSloth]

Quakes generally range from 10KM depth up to 800KM. Naturally, the deeper the rupture, the less the shake is felt up here on the Earth's crust.

[ASA Vet]

We were watching a movie and my girlfriend noticed the room moving

Must have been a good movie to cause that.

[poindexters brother]

must be the people testing the tesla earthquake weapons.

It's them terrorists - First they bought the weather machine from the Russkies and now they've bought the earthquake machine.

:-)

[Nowhere Man]

but if you have no radio, you dont get the warning. poor people.

I remember the original intent of the Baygen Radio, the one you wind up and the clock spring runs an internal generator to power an AM/FW/SW radio, was to provide dirt poor people of the world some form of communication for events like these and so on. Would be perfect in this situation, you don't have to worry about batteries. I think newer radios do have a solar cell along with being about to use battery or mains power but you still have the windup generator.

[expatguy]

Looks like no tsunami this time - no reports on the phone - evacuation was started - - police saying if there was a tsunami would have hit already - however possible aftershocks

[Hand em their arse]

"We were watching a movie and my girlfriend noticed the room moving..."


Me too!! But, I'm in Jersey...

[bahblahbah]

If you go by their local time zone then it was still barely the day after easter. The international date line is really only useful for GMT.

[Siegfried]

has anyone dragged Fat Teddy out of his noontime watering hole ...

And I was wondering if Kofi Annan will see this event as important enough to break off his vacation this time. Last time he decided it wasn't important enough and he just continued vacationing for 3-4 days.

Course, Kofi is said to be depressed this time. Maybe he just doesn't care about little people anymore. After all, there aren't many five-star vacation resorts left in that area to worry about so he's probably not concerned.

[Rain-maker]

false alarm, go back to huts

[Hand em their arse]

Thanks J, I realized the idiosy of my post within about 3 seconds of hitting send...