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Indonesia - Sumatra Earthquake - Evacuations Under way (Update - 8.5 quake )
Dow Jones News | 3/28/05

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.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: earthquake; india; indonesia; notaboutterri; quake; sumatraearthquake; tsunami
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To: Helmholtz

US Officials need to issue an 'alert potential' for a tsunami, so they don't get sued ---- again.


[typed with sarcasm]


81 posted on 03/28/2005 9:11:32 AM PST by TomGuy (America: Best friend or worst enemy. Choose wisely.)
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To: Lokibob

82 posted on 03/28/2005 9:11:52 AM PST by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
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To: Strategerist

But there could be a tsunami in another area, do you think?


83 posted on 03/28/2005 9:12:13 AM PST by Peach (I'm in the WPPFF.)
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To: Helmholtz

Stand by for High Seas ...


84 posted on 03/28/2005 9:12:13 AM PST by 11th_VA (Stop the Immoral Illegal Invasion - Secure the Borders)
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To: JustRight

Saving for future reading.


85 posted on 03/28/2005 9:12:21 AM PST by SheLion (Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
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To: Howlin

OMG.


86 posted on 03/28/2005 9:12:29 AM PST by Right_in_Virginia
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To: ChefKeith

On the phone to Medan right now!


87 posted on 03/28/2005 9:12:37 AM PST by expatguy (http://laotze.blogspot.com/)
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To: Peach

If there's a tsunami at all, it will have hit Sumatra. If no tsunami hits Sumatra then the quake didn't generate a tsunami at all.


89 posted on 03/28/2005 9:12:57 AM PST by Strategerist
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To: All

Quake at 11:08am eastern time, so a full hour has passed.


90 posted on 03/28/2005 9:12:58 AM PST by stlnative (Sign the Impeach Greer Petition @ http://www.petitiononline.com/ijg520/petition.html)
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To: Strategerist

;-) The second I hit send, I realize just how assinine that question was.... I appreciate you being gentle... :)


91 posted on 03/28/2005 9:13:21 AM PST by Hand em their arse
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To: TomGuy

Don't laugh they did.


92 posted on 03/28/2005 9:13:26 AM PST by MKM1960 (Now I know how Tom Daschle felt: "I'm saddened, deeply saddened")
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To: Lokibob; bd476

Thanks for the chart....


93 posted on 03/28/2005 9:13:34 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (This tagline no longer operative....floated away in the flood of 2005 ,)
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To: zarf
Can I be the first wackjob to say this is G-d's revenge for Terri?

I was just on the verge of pre-declaring the first person who connected this quake with Terri an idiot, to save myself time...

94 posted on 03/28/2005 9:13:35 AM PST by Strategerist
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To: Strategerist

Okay, thanks. No one is covering it right now.


95 posted on 03/28/2005 9:13:35 AM PST by Peach (I'm in the WPPFF.)
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To: Howlin; All

JUST DAMNNNNN

Howlin I read that on Xinura news wire just now before FOx news nail the story


96 posted on 03/28/2005 9:13:55 AM PST by SevenofNine (Not everybody in, it for truth, justice, and the American way,"=Det Lennie Briscoe)
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Magnitude 8.2 Earthquake Off Coast Off Sumatra

LONDON (Reuters) - An 8.2 magnitude earthquake struck in the sea off the coast of Sumatra, the U.S. Geological Survey told Reuters Monday.

A USGS spokeswoman said the quake struck 125 miles west northwest off Sibolga, Sumatra or 880 miles northwest of the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, close to where a 9.0 December quake triggered a devastating Tsunami in Asia.

The USGS spokeswoman could not say if the quake would trigger a Tsunami.

World - AP Asia Big Earthquake Hits Off Indonesia Island

BANGKOK, Thailand - A large earthquake struck off Indonesia's Sumatra Island in the Andaman Sea late Monday, and the U.S. Geological Survey said it was a major quake measuring a magnitude of 8.2.

Thai officials issued a warning of a possible tsunami, three months after a tsunami devastated parts of Indonesia and other countries in the region. The quake occurred at 11:09 p.m. local at a depth of nearly 19 miles, the USGS in Golden, Colo., said.

Japan's Meteorological Agency measured the quake at magnitude 8.5.

The magnitude-9 undersea earthquake, the world's biggest in 40 years, and the huge tsunami it sent charging across the Indian Ocean at the speed of a passenger jet killed more than 174,000 people and left another 106,000 missing.

More than 1.5 million people were left homeless in 11 countries.

97 posted on 03/28/2005 9:14:00 AM PST by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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To: Lokibob
Drudge is describing this on his website as an "aftershock."

At 8.5, that's some aftershock! He also says on his website that there are already panics and blackouts on Sumatra.

Ironically, I was reading about that part of the world last night relative to the Japanese naval action there in WW2 (during April of 1942). This was a couple of months before the Japanese lost most of their aircraft carriers at Midway and at that time, it looked like the Japanese were going to control the entire Indian Ocean. I often wonder how differently the war would have turned out if not for Midway.

98 posted on 03/28/2005 9:14:03 AM PST by SamAdams76 (Don't You Think This Outlaw Bit's Done Got Out Of Hand?)
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To: Strategerist

LOL!


99 posted on 03/28/2005 9:14:06 AM PST by Peach (I'm in the WPPFF.)
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To: brigette

We should know shortly....


100 posted on 03/28/2005 9:14:41 AM PST by Lurking in Kansas (Nothing witty hereā€¦ move on.)
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