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Tsunami Warning for Hawaii, Fiji, New Zealand
Fox News
Posted on 05/03/2006 9:50:15 AM PDT by Kimberly GG
Magnitude 8.1 earthquake near Island of Tonga in South Pacific
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: australia; fiji; hawaii; india; lookinbreaking; newzealand; ocean; pacific; quake; tonga; tsunami
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To: Kimberly GG
Hopefully nothing happens.
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posted on
05/03/2006 10:08:12 AM PDT
by
Ptarmigan
(Ptarmigans will rise again!)
To: Perdogg
It's Bush's fault I don't know my geography?? No, I don't think so!
susie
42
posted on
05/03/2006 10:09:53 AM PDT
by
brytlea
(amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
To: All
Dumb question alert!
Can an earthquake's aftershocks be stronger than the original earthquake?
(I have always wanted to ask this question on an earthquake thread)
Thanks!
To: Broker
44
posted on
05/03/2006 10:11:34 AM PDT
by
fanfan
(FR is the best/biggest news gathering entity in the whole known history of the world. Thanks Jim.)
To: p. henry
Oh, then that's bad. Hopefully this will be nothing bad for them. God Bless all the people who may be affected.
susie
45
posted on
05/03/2006 10:12:33 AM PDT
by
brytlea
(amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
To: fanfan
Here in Hawaii they aren't taking any chances. Schools in low-lying areas are closed for the day.
To: Kimberly GG
Maybe Keith Richard's should go back up that coconut tree he fell out of.
47
posted on
05/03/2006 10:13:55 AM PDT
by
capydick
(Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse.)
To: oxcart
I thought Hawaii had a vast levee system for things like this? /sOnly designed for Category 3 tsunamis.
48
posted on
05/03/2006 10:14:17 AM PDT
by
Lekker 1
("Computers in the future may have only 1000 vacuum tubes..." - Popular Mechanics, March 1949)
To: roses of sharon
Actually, yes. However, when that happens the first quake is then considered a "pre-shock" and the largest is the main quake.
49
posted on
05/03/2006 10:16:55 AM PDT
by
oldleft
To: capydick
50
posted on
05/03/2006 10:17:18 AM PDT
by
Heatseeker
(Never underestimate the left's tendency to underestimate us.)
To: Island Girl
51
posted on
05/03/2006 10:17:41 AM PDT
by
fanfan
(FR is the best/biggest news gathering entity in the whole known history of the world. Thanks Jim.)
To: fanfan
Gotta love their front-page poll question though: "Do you have flood insurance?"
52
posted on
05/03/2006 10:19:15 AM PDT
by
Heatseeker
(Never underestimate the left's tendency to underestimate us.)
To: fanfan
NON ALERT STATUS OF NZ AND FIJI RESULT 2 FACTORS.
1. IT IS NIGHT TIME
2. BUREAUCRACY.
53
posted on
05/03/2006 10:20:27 AM PDT
by
Broker
(Recondo !)
To: capydick
Maybe Keith Richard's should go back up that coconut tree he fell out of. Was it ever told why he was in the tree in the first place?
54
posted on
05/03/2006 10:20:32 AM PDT
by
don-o
To: don-o
Was it ever told why he was in the tree in the first place?Keef was up there along with Ron Wood getting coconuts (see, there's always a logical explanation). And apparently he needs a drainage hole because he suffered a hemmorrhage.
To: roses of sharon
They didn't have recording instruments, but the New Madrid fault had three very strong earthquakes from the end of 1811 through the spring of 1812.
First link I could did up...
56
posted on
05/03/2006 10:22:21 AM PDT
by
DocRock
To: Blue Turtle
I think he's still smilin' for the cameras since the primary.
57
posted on
05/03/2006 10:22:31 AM PDT
by
toldyou
To: Kimberly GG
58
posted on
05/03/2006 10:24:15 AM PDT
by
Jaded
(does it really need a sarcasm tag?)
To: DocRock
59
posted on
05/03/2006 10:24:29 AM PDT
by
DocRock
To: roses of sharon
The answer is yes... but then they would later revise their nomenclature and say the first earthquake was a "foreshock" (just like they have "aftershocks") to the larger quake.
Something this large (7.8 - 8.1) releases alot of energy though, so it's highly unlikely that a larger quake would follow something this large. But if you had a 3.4 magnitude quake, for example, then it wouldn't be "shocking" (har har) to have it followed by a 6.5.... and then a 4.6... and then a 2.4... They would call the first one a foreshock, the 6.2 would be called (by the media, and in layman's terms) the "earthquake", and the later ones would be called aftershocks.
Technically, they are ALL "earthquakes." But for some silly reason, people seem to be mentally soothed when you call it an aftershock rather than "another earthquake."
60
posted on
05/03/2006 10:24:33 AM PDT
by
BagCamAddict
(Prayers for the victims - human and animal - of Katrina and Rita)
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