[11th_VA]

Stand by for High Seas ...

[bd476]

Ping.

[Lockbar]

Well, the sick thing is that there won't be as much stuff to be wrecked this time around.

[Centurion2000]

No disaster relief this time. To hell with that part of the world.

[Prost1]

"magnitude nearly as large as Tsunami earthquake"

False statement. An 8.2 is nowhere close to a 9.0 earthquake. Richter is a modified logarithmic scale.

It is not even close.

[HAL9000]

THAILAND ISSUES TSUNAMI WARNING AFTER QUAKE OFF SUMATRA - RADIO
Source: Reuters

[DollyCali]

Oh my, heaven help those in path of Tsumani

[hiramknight]

Religous coincidence? Day after Christmas and the day after Easter.

[CarrotAndStick]

Missionaries or families of missionaries who are currently in the region- India, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Thailand, Indonesia, please try calling them up to warn them and/or others of danger- upto 2 hours from now available- WILL BE OF GREAT HELP.

[foreverfree]

bump

[dandelion]

God save them.

[TomGuy]

TSUNAMI BULLETIN NUMBER 001
PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER/NOAA/NWS
ISSUED AT 1629Z 28 MAR 2005

THIS BULLETIN IS FOR ALL AREAS OF THE PACIFIC BASIN EXCEPT
ALASKA - BRITISH COLUMBIA - WASHINGTON - OREGON - CALIFORNIA.

... TSUNAMI INFORMATION BULLETIN ...

THIS MESSAGE IS FOR INFORMATION ONLY. THERE IS NO TSUNAMI WARNING
OR WATCH IN EFFECT.

AN EARTHQUAKE HAS OCCURRED WITH THESE PRELIMINARY PARAMETERS

ORIGIN TIME - 1610Z 28 MAR 2005
COORDINATES - 2.3 NORTH 97.1 EAST
LOCATION - NORTHERN SUMATERA INDONESIA
MAGNITUDE - 8.5

EVALUATION

THIS EARTHQUAKE IS LOCATED OUTSIDE THE PACIFIC. NO TSUNAMI THREAT
EXISTS TO COASTLINES IN THE PACIFIC.

WARNING... THIS EARTHQUAKE HAS THE POTENTIAL TO GENERATE A WIDELY
DESTRUCTIVE TSUNAMI IN THE OCEAN OR SEAS NEAR THE EARTHQUAKE.
AUTHORITIES IN THOSE REGIONS SHOULD BE AWARE OF THIS POSSIBILITY
AND TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION. THIS ACTION SHOULD INCLUDE EVACUATION
OF COASTS WITHIN A THOUSAND KILOMETERS OF THE EPICENTER AND CLOSE
MONITORING TO DETERMINE THE NEED FOR EVACUATION FURTHER AWAY.

THIS CENTER DOES NOT HAVE SEA LEVEL GAUGES OUTSIDE THE PACIFIC
SO WILL NOT BE ABLE TO DETECT OR MEASURE A TSUNAMI IF ONE WAS
GENERATED. AUTHORITIES CAN ASSUME THE DANGER HAS PASSED IF NO
TSUNAMI WAVES ARE OBSERVED IN THE REGION NEAR THE EPICENTER
WITHIN THREE HOURS OF THE EARTHQUAKE.

THIS WILL BE THE ONLY BULLETIN ISSUED FOR THIS EVENT UNLESS
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION BECOMES AVAILABLE.

THE WEST COAST/ALASKA TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER WILL ISSUE BULLETINS
FOR ALASKA - BRITISH COLUMBIA - WASHINGTON - OREGON - CALIFORNIA.

[seacapn]

Just talked to some friends in Medan, the major city of Sumatra. Power was knocked out, but it now getting back on-line. No major damage in that city. But it's a long ways from north Aceh. The northen coastline probably took the brunt of the damage again.

[SunkenCiv]

more about the tsunami threat:

Tsunami fear as earthquake strikes off Sumatra
Reuters
Mon Mar 28, 2005 6:26 PM GMT

A spokesman for the U.S. Geological Survey told CNN that the earthquake could cause tsunamis. "Certainly evacuations should be occurring. I hope they are," spokesman Don Blakeman said, saying of the earthquake that "it could also cause some local tsunami activity. Even if we do see tsunami activity it won't be as widespread" as December's quake.

[Nowhere Man]

I know we are just past the Full Moon. I know there was a Full Moon during the Good Friday quake in Alaska in 1964 as well as the 9.0 that hit the same place on December 26th, of last year (2004).

[TomGuy]

To make matters worse, in that area it is the middle of the night. It is approximately 1:42 a.m. in Singapore.

[Yasotay]

TOBA .... TOBA .... TOBA .... let's hope not!

[SunkenCiv]

An afternoon dual-use ping:

Cartographers Redrawing Maps After Tsunami
[Straits of Malacca 4K feet deep before, now 100 feet?]
AP via yahoo | Jan 5, 2005 | Katherine Pfleger Shrader
Posted on 01/05/2005 4:20:40 PM PST by Mike Fieschko
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1314839/posts

[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.

LINK

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.