Strong earthquake shakes Sumatra

[jhain]

An earthquake estimated at 6.7-magnitude has hit the Indonesian island of Sumatra, which was so badly hit in recent quakes.


For more details: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news

[scarletlib]

1. how much more can these poor people take?

my heart goes out to them.

[Scooter24]

2. Damn...

[allemand]

3. Sumatra shaken by new earthquake

A strong earthquake has struck near the Indonesian island of Sumatra, say seismologists.

The epicentre of the quake, which had an estimated magnitude of 6.7, was about 120km (75 miles) south-west of the city of Padang, officials said.

There were no immediate reports of damage, but some people fled the coast. (...)

Scientists have warned that the Indian Ocean faultline could deliver another major earthquake, and tremors have been felt in the area almost continually since the 9.3-magnitude jolt that unleashed the 26 December tsunami.

More:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4430255.stm


9.0, 12/26/2004

8.7, 03/28/2005

6.8, 04/10/2005

[allemand]

12. BBC map with plate boundaries

[unhappycamper]

4. here's a pretty good web site for earthquake info

http://www.iris.edu/seismon/

The "Last 30 Days Earthquakes" button is pretty interesting.

[mcscajun]

5. "tremors have been felt in the area almost continually since the 9.3"

And the question remains...are these still aftershocks from the 9.3 of 12/26? Or precursors for the next quake?

[Karenina]

6. That was the WORST part

after the Northridge Quake (6.8). The ground was a rockin' and a rolling CONSTANTLY for MONTHS.

[Art_from_Ark]

8. Niigata Prefecture (scene of Japan's worst earthquake since Kobe 1995)

was "rockin' and rollin'" for several months after the first quake (October 2004), and today, northern Kyushu Island (Japan), which sustained some major earthquake damage recently, was hit with a 4.8 quake.

[cascadiance]

7. Hard to know...

Probably depends if we're drilling into the Earth's mantle again any time soon like we just did recently. I'm guessing it was probably done over there in the ocean nearby these folks.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

15. robably depends if we're drilling into the Earth's mantle again any time s

No, it does not.

[Roland99]

9. I can see it now...

A big crack in the ocean floor is going to form and the entire Indian ocean is going to drain into it and then we won't have to worry about rising sea levels anymore. ;)

[southernboy]

10. there's a B film around to that effect

I think it was called "Crack in the World"?

[Roland99]

11. No way...

<--- runs off to imdb.com


A bit different but...interesting:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059065/plotsummary

Interesting in light of that drill through the earth's crust news. :)

[southernboy]

19. funstuff, huh

I remember how it ends.

Wanna know?

ps. I'd forgotten about the thermonuclear part.

[Roland99]

21. I can take a guess

;)

[jhain]

13. latest

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4430255.stm

[i have issues]

14. Might these be a precursor to the eruption

Of Mt Toba in Sumatra? If it is, most of East Asia is screwed fairly quickly, then the rest of the planet as the ash cloud spreads.:scared:
http://www.andaman.org/book/app-r/textr.htm

[Art_from_Ark]

16. 6.1 earthquake east of Tokyo today

There was a 6.1 magnitude earthquake here in the Tokyo area this morning, centered on the NE coast of Chiba Prefecture, about 50 miles east of Tokyo Station.

:scared:

Too damn many earthquakes these days!!!!!

[eowyn_of_rohan]

17. Too many alright...

and are they getting stronger on average? There have been 4 in the last day over #6, and these are all around the Pacific Rim...

[Art_from_Ark]

18. They certainly seem to have been getting stronger here in Japan

A couple of months ago, for example, my area slightly north of central Tokyo experienced its strongest recorded earthquake ever. Fukuoka, on the north side of the western island of Kyushu, recently experienced one of its strongest earthquakes ever (M7.0-- the strongest in at least the last 300 years), which resulted in the evacuation of a small island near the city of Fukuoka. Last October, there was a series of 6.0 and above quakes in Niigata Prefecture, near the Sea of Japan coast. A few months before that, there was a 6.0 quake off the coast of Sendai (about 180 miles N of Tokyo), and a few months before that, there was a large quake further to the north, in Hokkaido. So in the last 2-3 years, three of Japan's four main islands have been hit with M6.0+ earthquakes.

[Dancing_Dave]

20. Well, Bushco figured out how to screw these people for a while...

But in the end, it ain't gonna work. Because a certain number of man-made earthquakes can be triggered, but in the end the whole Conspiracy of Fools cannot stop the dollar from going under, with the stupidity of Bush-Cheney management and the lying complicity of our corporate media being what it is.