Strong Quake Hits Near Indonesian Island

St.Cloud Times online edition ^ | Apr 10, 8:10 AM EDT | AP

[Jackknife]

HONG KONG (AP) -- A strong earthquake hit Sunday near the Indonesian island of Sumatra, Hong Kong seismologists said. The 6.8-magnitude tremor's epicenter was about 74 miles southwest of Padang, a city in western Sumatra, the Hong Kong Observatory said. The quake was recorded at 6:35 a.m. EDT, it said.

Sumatra was devastated by the Dec. 26 tsunami and earthquake that killed nearly 183,000 people in 11 countries and left another 129,000 missing.

Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, was the hardest hit, with at least 126,000 people killed and more than 500,000 left homeless, mostly in Aceh province on Sumatra.

[Socratic]

Supervolcanos: The REAL global warming.

[Twinkie]

"earthquakes don't kill people, buildings do".

Okay. That's easy to solve. Buildings should be outlawed. Then earthquakes could just run rampant, and no one would be hurt by them. :o)

Then, since guns don't kill people, people do, then people should be outlawed. Heh. Heh.

[pitinkie]

Yeah Krakatoa

[Loud Mime]

Did you ever see that PBS special on the eruption of Pinatubo? The interviews with the scientists were impressive....especially when they realized that their reporting stations were disappearing during the big eruption. The line of failed stations was approaching them!

Pucker factor.

[bd476]

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[Darksheare]

Yikes.

[mewzilla]

Okay. That's easy to solve. Buildings should be outlawed. Then earthquakes could just run rampant, and no one would be hurt by them. :o)

Seriously, though, since it can't be about earthquake prevention, it's got to be about mitigation. That's something folks have to keep in mind if they want to build/live/work there.

[bd476]

Magnitude 5.3 - KEPULAUAN MENTAWAI REGION, INDONESIA
2005 April 10 13:54:16 UTC

Preliminary Earthquake Report
U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center
World Data Center for Seismology, Denver

A moderate earthquake occurred at 13:54:16 (UTC) on Sunday, April 10, 2005.
The magnitude 5.3 event has been located in the KEPULAUAN MENTAWAI REGION, INDONESIA. (This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.)

Magnitude	5.3
Date-Time	Sunday, April 10, 2005 at 13:54:16 (UTC) = Coordinated Universal Time Sunday, April 10, 2005 at 8:54:16 PM = local time at epicenter
Location	1.731°S, 99.915°E
Depth	30 km (18.6 miles) set by location program
Region	KEPULAUAN MENTAWAI REGION, INDONESIA
Distances	100 km (60 miles) SSW of Padang, Sumatra, Indonesia 305 km (190 miles) SW of Pekanbaru, Sumatra, Indonesia 575 km (355 miles) SSW of KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia 900 km (560 miles) WNW of JAKARTA, Java, Indonesia
Location Uncertainty	horizontal +/- 11.6 km (7.2 miles); depth fixed by location program
Parameters	Nst= 60, Nph= 60, Dmin=779.8 km, Rmss=1.09 sec, Gp= 47°, M-type=body magnitude (Mb), Version=6
Source	USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID	uswsa4

North America Times:

• Sunday, April 10, 2005 at 09:54:16 AM (EDT) - Eastern Daylight (New York, Toronto)
• Sunday, April 10, 2005 at 09:54:16 AM (AST) - Atlantic Standard (San Juan)
• Sunday, April 10, 2005 at 08:54:16 AM (EST) - Eastern Standard (Indianapolis, Jamaica)
• Sunday, April 10, 2005 at 08:54:16 AM (CDT) - Central Daylight (Chicago, Mexico City)
• Sunday, April 10, 2005 at 07:54:16 AM (MDT) - Mountain Daylight (Denver, Calgary, Mazatlan)
• Sunday, April 10, 2005 at 06:54:16 AM (MST) - Mountain Standard (Phoenix)
• Sunday, April 10, 2005 at 06:54:16 AM (PDT) - Pacific Daylight (Los Angeles, Vancouver, Tijuana)

[Just mythoughts]

"Bad news for this place once again."


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1380109/posts

[b4its2late]

That place has probably been shaking frequently over thousands of years.

[bd476]

Most Recent Earthquakes

Magnitude Greater Than 2.5 Earthquakes From Around the World

This list contains all earthquakes with magnitude greater than 2.5 located by the USGS and contributing networks in the last week (168 hours). Magnitudes 5 and above are in bold font. Magnitudes 6 and above are in red. (Some early events may be obscured by later ones on the maps.)

The most recent earthquakes are at the top of the list. Times are in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Click on the word "map" to see a ten-degree tall map displaying the earthquake. Click on an event's "DATE" to get additional text information.

Update time = Sun Apr 10 15:00:00 UTC 2005

    MAG    DATE     UTC-TIME    LAT     LON    DEPTH    region
           y/m/d     h:m:s      deg     deg     km
   

MAP 5.3  2005/04/10 13:54:16  -1.731   99.915  30.0  KEPULAUAN MENTAWAI REGION, INDONESIA
MAP 5.9  2005/04/10 11:55:31  -1.730   99.658  30.0  KEPULAUAN MENTAWAI REGION, INDONESIA
MAP 5.5  2005/04/10 11:45:03  -1.641   99.523  30.0  KEPULAUAN MENTAWAI REGION, INDONESIA
map 2.7  2005/04/10 11:24:10  51.156 -175.810   1.0  ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 6.3  2005/04/10 11:14:20  -1.702   99.722  30.0  KEPULAUAN MENTAWAI REGION, INDONESIA
MAP 5.8  2005/04/10 10:45:50  -1.572   99.574  30.0  KEPULAUAN MENTAWAI REGION, INDONESIA
MAP 6.8  2005/04/10 10:29:13  -1.618   99.563  30.0  KEPULAUAN MENTAWAI REGION, INDONESIA
MAP 5.3  2005/04/10 10:27:57   2.908   95.290  24.5  SIMEULUE, INDONESIA

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Rocking and rolling !!

[bd476]

NOAA's National Weather Service

Pacific Tsunami Warning Center

[bd476]

[bd476]

This was a deep and pretty strong quake.

[Dog]

Another quake?

[Dog]

The quakes are moving south along the fault line? Does anyone else notice that also?

[P.O.E.]

I think the definition of aftershock is dependent on the time factor as well as proximity: Scientists Debate Quake Vs. Aftershock

[bd476]

Yes, they do appear to be moving in a South-SouthEast direction. Hopefully it is just the fault line still releasing energy from the big one in December.

[Dog]

I wonder if a another real big one is brewing.