Breaking: 6.9 EARTHQUAKE hits Sulawesi, Indonesia

[Bluebear]

Those poor people.

http://www.iris.edu/seismon/
This is a screenshot, if you go to the link above it is a "live" seismic monitor.

[dobegrrrl]

1. eeee! terrible

[flamingyouth]

2. Oh no

:cry:

[Bluebear]

3. That area can't take any more devastation.

Aren't Clinton and Poppy over there?

[RBHam]

4. After shock?

And a big one...

[KharmaTrain]

5. 6.9?

The Frisco quake of 1906 was 6.0...not quite an aftershock.

Indonesia is a large country...much of the country didn't even feel the 12/26 quake or Tsunami.

On Edit: If that Red Circle is the epicenter...that puts it near Borneo...the other side of the country than the last quake.

[RobertSeattle]

9. San Fran EQ of 1906 was 7.8

http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/eq_depot/usa/1906_04_18.html

But with all the fill down by the water it can do lots of more damage when the fill liquifies.

[AtLiberty]

6. Another tsunami to follow?

?

[Cleita]

8. Probably.

:cry:

[Lisa]

7. looks like south Sulawesi?

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/Quakes/usurbm.htm


65 km west of Baubau -- if so, that's off the SE tip.


http://www.indostreets.com/maps/sulawesi/

[MelissaB]

10. Anybody heard anything about

the effects of this yet? My family just arrived in Thailand today and I'm worried...

[Lisa]

11. "no immediate reports of any deaths" (Reuters)

http://today.reuters.co.uk/News/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2005-02-19T013454Z_01_HOP905648_RTRUKOC_0_QUAKE-INDONESIA-SULAWESI.xml


Nothing here yet:

http://indonesianews.net/

[MelissaB]

12. Thank you!!

I guess I'll just stay glued to the computer and tv.