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Originally posted by Montana
You would be talking about the single largest explosion ever created, and no one notices a difference from 'normal' earthquakes?
This is just lame.
Originally posted by ShadowXIX
Originally posted by Montana
You would be talking about the single largest explosion ever created, and no one notices a difference from 'normal' earthquakes?
This is just lame.
I agree America and Russia spent years finding ways to detect nukes going off. Both Countries and likely many others have networks of underwater listening stations for enemy subs I know the US does. There is no way a earthquake and a nuke sound like the same thing.
Originally posted by FredT
Ycon, the seisomgraphs would have detected a non naturalsignature as I explained in my post above. They can tell the difference. Even a large convential explosion has the same trace as a nuke. Remember if you will the North Korean Blast of a few months ago
as posted by Ycon
This quake and tsunami did not act like regular quakes and tsunamis. The quake did not have a big aftershock as expected and the Tsunami waves did not act like they should of. I don't quite understand the wave idea, but the waves are still coming in, but not pulling out, which is what a tsunami should be doing. A quake lifts or drops a shelf which causes a wave and a bomb sends waves out in every direction. It's very different
The earthquake was initially reported as 6.8 on the Richter scale. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center(PTWC) also estimated it at 8.5 shortly after the earthquake. On the moment magnitude scale, which is more accurate for quakes of this size [2] (earthquake.usgs.gov...), the earthquake's magnitude was first reported as 8.1 by the U.S. Geological Survey. After further analysis, this was increased to 8.5, 8.9, and finally to 9.0 [3]
Numerous aftershocks were reported off the Andaman Islands, the Nicobar Islands, and the region of the original epicenter in the hours and days that followed. The largest aftershock was 7.1 off the Nicobar Islands [8] (earthquake.usgs.gov...). Other aftershocks of up to magnitude 6.6 continue to shake the region on a daily basis [9]
The earthquake came just three days after a magnitude 8.1 earthquake in an uninhabited region west of New Zealand's sub-Antarctic Auckland Islands, and north of Australia's Macquarie Island [10]
This is unusual, since earthquakes of magnitude 8 or more occur only about once per year on average [11] (earthquake.usgs.gov...). Some seismologists have speculated about a connection between these two earthquakes, saying that the former one might have been a catalyst to the Indian Ocean earthquake, as the two quakes happened on opposite sides of the Indo-Australian tectonic plate [12] (www.news.com.au...). However the USGS sees no evidence of a causal relationship [13] (earthquake.usgs.gov...).
Coincidentally, the earthquake struck almost exactly one year (to the hour) after a magnitude 6.6 earthquake killed an estimated 30,000 people in the city of Bam in Iran [14] (earthquake.usgs.gov...).
As well as continuing aftershocks, the energy released by the original earthquake continued to make its presence felt well after the event. A week after the earthquake, its reverberations could still be measured, providing valuable scientific data about the Earth's interior. [15]
According to Tad Murty, vice-president of the Tsunami Society, the total energy of the tsunami waves was about five megatons of TNT (20 petajoules). This is more than twice the total explosive energy used during all of World War II (including the two atomic bombs), but still a couple of orders of magnitude less than the energy released in the earthquake itself [24]
Originally posted by FredT
If it was say an electromagnetic blast from say HAARP let think that one out:
Motive? None of the countries hit are of strategic importance, nor wer emilitary targets hit. If it was done to create sympathy by showing how nice we are maybe but seems to carry too much risk.
A signal that strong to say set up a harmonic virbration that triggers the quake of displaces a large amount of the ocean floor, would have to have left a detectable signature at least while it was pulsed. Now Ill be honest, Im not all convinced that HAARP is what we think it is, but that another topic. I have not looked, but do we have any indication of satelite blackouts, atmospheric disturbances?
Also, if the US, or any western country, could do that, they'd simply rule the planet with it and use it to do more than kill some villagers and tourists
as posted by Ycon
Many things around that date happened. Russian missle testing, asteroid/comet, US nuclear sub accident, US ships near by, US military base island was notified before tsunami, earth is still ringing, should of stopped after a few days, ocean waves are acting differently from normal tsunami waves and the list goes on.
Originally posted by Ycon
The recent Tsunami just makes you wonder. I hope this isn't man made, but we know it's possible. The areas affected were mostly muslims. I personally don't think it's a man made quake, but with all the nuclear subs and latest technology, you just don't know.
Originally posted by drunk
Originally posted by Ycon
The recent Tsunami just makes you wonder. I hope this isn't man made, but we know it's possible. The areas affected were mostly muslims. I personally don't think it's a man made quake, but with all the nuclear subs and latest technology, you just don't know.
If i am not mistaken the Indonesia was the only Muslim affect area. If i am wrong i will dance around naked in my office!
as posted by Ycon
The quake was "not" a normal quake. Everything from beached whales to siesmic testing, asteroids near enough to earth to go under satellites to unknown blasts and brown clouds over indonesia and indian ocean. US war ships waiting near by and submarines running a ground. 21 out of 30 major quakes are caused by nuclear tests, so just in odds alone, I would bet that it wasn't a natural occuring quake.
I would bet that it wasn't a natural occuring quake.
...21 out of 30 major quakes are caused by nuclear tests