NEWS: 8.7 Earthquake in Indonesia, Thousands Feared Dead

"The earthquake is strong enough to issue the warning for people to evacuate as a prevention, particularly in the area affected by the tsunami last time," said Chalermchai Akekantrong, deputy director general of the meteorological department, on Thai television.

Officials in Sri Lanka have urged residents along the island's tsunami-battered coastline to leave immediately.

"We are not certain that this latest quake will trigger tsunamis that will hit Sri Lanka," department deputy director Lalith Chandrapala said.

"But, we are asking people living along the coast to leave as a precaution."

Originally posted by ju stab urden

So does that suggest that if it hasn't already hit, it isn't going to?

REUTERS
But the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said the quake had the "potential to generate a widely destructive tsunami in the ocean or seas near the earthquake."

"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," it added.

Originally posted by onlyinmydreams

Originally posted by WyrdeOne
onlyinmydreams
Using your logic, people don't like to believe their governments are capable of such horrendous attrocity, but some of us know for a FACT that they are. And your comment stating unequivocally that the US isn't causing this, how can you say that? That's just your belief. There's evidence in both camps, and you shouldn't mislead people any more than the other side should, by saying things as "gospel."

Ok, maybe I shouldn't have been so unequivocal.

However, it's clear that the energy involved in the last tsunami was on the order of thousands of nuclear bombs. How... how could the us have lifted an entire tectonic plate? To be frank, since such a feat would be absolutely amazing, it's up to the people who believe the us is causing this to come up with explanations for HOW they are causing this.

I don't mean to squabble. Right now, like a poster above stated, we need to pray and hope for the people in this region.

Here's how you initiate a very large earthquake with such weapons. Take a convenient fault zone or set of them. Focus the interferometry on the fault zone, in the "diverging" mode, and deposit EM energy there in the rocks on both sides, increasing (slowly) the stress in the rocks by the reverse piezoelectric effect (deposit excess energy, get crystal mechanical movements). Do it slowly, and the stress will build up to large pressures well-above a plate slip minimum energy required. At some point, the rocks yield and one or both sides "slip" and move rather sharply, giving a very large earthquake in that zone. Do the same thing down in the earth (remember, LWs easily penetrate right through the earth and ocean at will, and so the 'interference zone' focus can be inside the earth or beneath the ocean, at will)."
- Tom Bearden, Ph.D., nuclear engineer, retired Lieutenant Colonel (U.S. Army), CEO of CTEC, Inc., Director of the Association of Distinguished American Scientists, and Fellow Emeritus of the Alpha Foundation's Institute for Advanced Study, in "The Tesla Howitzer and its Modes of Action"

Originally posted by skippytjc
How much time elapsed between the quake and the tsunami hitting lad last time?

Originally posted by WyrdeOne
cmdr
Glad you found it, sorry I couldn't post links for you myself.

zyx.org...

Their is substantial evidence to show that within the time of the super volcano Toba's eruption in the Indonesian Pacific, the world's population of homo sapiens decreased from over one hundred thousand to less than two thousand, basically because global temperatures dropped five degrees for many years. This was within the current interglacial and at its start.

The eruption of 2,800 cubic km of magma at Toba caldera 75,000 years ago was the largest eruption in the last 2 million years. The eruption may have release as much as 10 X10^12 kg of sulfuric acid, an order of magnitude more than Laki in 1783 and Tambora in 1815, two of the greatest Holocene eruptions.

Originally posted by WyrdeOne
Phreak
No, there weren't two 8's to my knowledge. There were however, by my count, about 7 6+ and about the same number of 5+ since the 8.2 event.

There's some severe movement going on. The rest of the world is feeling it slightly, but that region is really moving.

2005/03/28 16:09:33.6 2.12 N 97.05 E 17 Mw8.2 NORTHERN SUMATERA, INDONESIA 2005/03/28 17:08

2005/03/28 16:09:37.0 2.09 N 97.02 E 30G M 8.2 NORTHERN SUMATERA, INDONESIA 2005/03/28 16:40

Originally posted by skippytjc
How much time elapsed between the quake and the tsunami hitting lad last time?

SOURCE
Two hours passed between the time of the earthquake and the impact of the tsunami on Sri Lanka. Proportionately longer times from earthquake to impact occurred at other locations.

The unhurried schedule for evaluating seismic data from major earthquake events at USGS is intolerable. USGS' methodical review of seismic event data lends itself to a highly accurate, historical representation of each earthquake...ideal for scientific research. However, this after-the-fact presentation of data is little solace for those who might have been able to heed advance warnings and save their own lives or the lives of their loved ones.

Two hours of advance warning to the most likely tsunami targets could have saved thousands of lives.


Please visit the link provided for the complete story.

Originally posted by ProudAmerican
Apparently it was a couple of hours between the quake and the tsunami hitting land. Aren't we about two hours into this latest earthquake now?

THERE WAS HOWEVER A SMALL TSUNAMI OBSERVED ON THE COCOS TIDE GAGE.

Originally posted by TrickmastertricK
Hmmm.. while on subject, they may not have infromation for few hours, and it takes less than that for one to happen. Not good.