Posted on 03/28/2005 8:46:46 AM PST by Helmholtz
Dow Jones News Reports at 11:39 "DJ Singapore Official: 7.5 Quake Hits Sumatra - Kyodo"
No other reports yet.
Please update title to reflect USGS revised magnitutde of 8.7
Knock it off with posting your theories in unrelated threads (like this one) or face a timeout. Thanks.
I am glad you got out of there alive! My husband was also on the DMZ but he was 19 years old at the time
My life was saved by some very young EMT's and an Army Captain at Camp Bonifus. They flew me out of there by black hawk helicopter. Owe these young brave guys my life!
The following email comes from Paola in Phuket, Thailand:
Luckily somebody woke me up!
The girl who works in the kitchen knocked at my door she was gasping for breath
she almost could not speak
she said - my friend phoned me tsunami may be coming -
I thought that maybe I should check on the net, so she said ok I ll wait
then I thought again, no, first I go somewhere safe then I check
- I was half asleep but still capable of a self preserving reaction obviously -
so i grabbed the laptop, the phone, the bag with the passport and money which has been on standby
since the disaster, and I jumped on the motorbike, this guy rode me uphill
here there were already a few dozen people and families waiting
we are in a house with a small shop on top of a hill near the airport in phuket, this area was badly hit last time
people are watching television but its in thai, so i dont know what is being said
there are rolf and kerstin karlsson from aland in finland, they are the only other foreigners
we dont know where the others have gone but we think everyody has been warned
i have phoned a friend who lives also opposite the beach but she did not reply the phone
some people kept on drinking at the bars as we ran away uphill
let s hope nothing is going to happen
I am due to go back to Europe on Thursday
if god so wishes
and I dont think I ll stay on the beach when I come back
I guess I ll stay here for three hours then I go back home to finish packing
and thats it for beach life
acarvin at 3/28/2005 02:29:00 PM
"(Yeah, I'm a troublemaker.:)"
LOL! Sorta suspected that.
exp curve on the move
http://www.seis.utah.edu/helicorder/heli/yellowstone/Uuss.YFT_SHZ_WY.2005032800.gif
My husband is a Viet vet and whenever we smell something awful, we both look at each other and say "kimchee"--a little joke because he told me how awful it smelled---
When I came home from the local Kroger one day and told him they started selling kimchee in the produce section, he couldn't believe it!
It's a record of the waves from this quake arriving at Yellowstone; you'll see the same thing on seismographs from all over the world.
I'm just curious how this quake being centered under and most heavily damaging basically the only Protestant Christian Island in Indonesia fits into your theory about this quake being a punishment for the Muslim Indonesians massacreing Christians in East Timor......
USGS holding presser now, indicating they expect a tsunami, but don't know exactly where in the region it will occur.
First it's Catholic, not Protestant. Secondly, Bishop Belo of Eastern Timor was the ONLY Bishop that refused, to the last consequences, to accept evil in the catholic church
USGS
Not an aftershock.
USGS
Not an aftershock.
USGS: Two aftershocks so-far, in the 5.6-6.0 range.
Wrong. Nias is Protestant.
http://nat.uca.org.au/news/tsunami/regionprofile3.htm
"Nias is predominantly Christian (80% Protestant) and the largest church is the Protestant Christian Church in Nias (Banua Niha Keriso Protestan) with nearly 340,000 members."
Nias is NOT Eastern Timor
I will pass this on to my husband, the smell of kimchee made a big impression on him.
Nias got a third quake...6.7 according to the USGS.
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