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Strong Quake Hits Near Indonesian Island
St.Cloud Times online edition ^
| Apr 10, 8:10 AM EDT
| AP
Posted on 04/10/2005 5:18:41 AM PDT by 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.
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: earthquake; indonesia; quake; sumatra
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Bad news for this place once again.
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posted on
04/10/2005 5:18:41 AM PDT
by
Jackknife
To: WestCoastGal
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posted on
04/10/2005 5:20:32 AM PDT
by
ChefKeith
(Apply here to be added to the NASCAR Ping List, Daytona is done but we got 31 more races to go...)
To: jakkknife
Gee whiz. They can't BUY a break over there.
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posted on
04/10/2005 5:20:47 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Cleverly Arranging 1's And 0's Since 11110111011...)
To: ChefKeith
Rattle!!!
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posted on
04/10/2005 5:21:42 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Cleverly Arranging 1's And 0's Since 11110111011...)
To: Lazamataz
I'm waiting for the volcanoes over there to start popping. Then we will have problems.
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posted on
04/10/2005 5:23:58 AM PDT
by
Loud Mime
(Liberals believe in their good; a good that is void of honesty and character)
To: jakkknife
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posted on
04/10/2005 5:25:17 AM PDT
by
tiredoflaundry
(My quaker parrot can talk, can Your honor student fly?)
To: Lazamataz
Gee whiz. They can't BUY a break over there.I'm not so sure they could buy one if there was one.
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posted on
04/10/2005 5:25:30 AM PDT
by
Jackknife
(No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.-MacArthur)
To: The Drowning Witch
The earth is rumblin' .......
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posted on
04/10/2005 5:26:28 AM PDT
by
Jackknife
(No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.-MacArthur)
To: jakkknife
If I read
this link correctly, in the last hour or so there's been a 6.8, a 5.8, and 6.3 in Sumatra. Yikes.
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posted on
04/10/2005 5:28:31 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
To: Lazamataz
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 6.7 rattled parts of Indonesia on Sunday and was even felt in neighboring Singapore.
The United States Geological Survey Web Site (http:/earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/Quakes/at00000321.htm) said the quake, which struck at 1729 local time (6:29 a.m. EDT) was "strong" and located in the Indonesia's Kepulauan Mentawai region.
Singapore's Channel News Asia said residents of high rise apartments in the city state reported feeling their buildings swaying.
To: Lazamataz
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posted on
04/10/2005 5:31:11 AM PDT
by
Rightly Biased
(Lazamataz Dead in a Tragic sex accident! See your local obit)
To: All
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posted on
04/10/2005 5:32:12 AM PDT
by
Jackknife
(No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.-MacArthur)
To: mewzilla
Good grief! What I don't understand is we'll get told they are "aftershocks".
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posted on
04/10/2005 5:33:30 AM PDT
by
Rightly Biased
(Lazamataz Dead in a Tragic sex accident! See your local obit)
To: mewzilla
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posted on
04/10/2005 5:37:46 AM PDT
by
Kozak
(Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
To: Rightly Biased
Well, if they are within a certain number of km from the big rupture, I think that's what makes them aftershocks. Scary for the inhabitants either way, though. Wow.
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posted on
04/10/2005 5:38:21 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
To: Kozak
Thanks! Looks like the fault is unzipping sorta and got stuck, and just worked itself free today.
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posted on
04/10/2005 5:40:04 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
To: mewzilla
Looks like one big quake to me Wow!
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posted on
04/10/2005 5:40:31 AM PDT
by
Rightly Biased
(Lazamataz Dead in a Tragic sex accident! See your local obit)
To: Kozak
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posted on
04/10/2005 5:43:11 AM PDT
by
Jackknife
(No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.-MacArthur)
To: Lazamataz
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posted on
04/10/2005 5:44:43 AM PDT
by
TXBSAFH
(Never underestimate the power of human stupidity--Robert Heinlein)
To: mewzilla
The interesting fact about this map is the parallel orientation of the green land masses. It would appear the plates rubbed against each other and raised up th malay Penninsula and Singapore. Then did it again transposed and made Sumatra and now is doing it again along the axis of the current series of quakes.
Realestate for development is being created as we post.
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posted on
04/10/2005 5:46:54 AM PDT
by
bert
(Peace is only halftime !)
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