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[Incognito]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7316846/

A large earthquake was registered Monday off Indonesia's Sumatra Island, the U.S. Geological Survey reported, describing it as a "great earthquake" with a magnitude of 8.2 on the Richter scale.

The USGS advised officials in the area to move people inland, and Thai officials were among the first to issue a tsunami warning for the Andaman Sea.

No reports of injury or damage had been received from the region. The Dec. 26 quake that launched the massive tsunami was a 9.0, the USGS said.

Monday's quake epicenter was just off the northern Sumatra coast and between two smaller islands, and located at 18.6 miles underground. It occured at around 11 p.m. local time.

 

[NLB2]

What terrible news.

 

[ToxicAdam]

Imagine you almost get your life/house/business back in order from the first one, and this shit happens. Man.

 

[Wellington]

Hopefully it won't trigger another tsunami.

 

[Doom_Bringer]

shit, terrible news

 

[LakeEarth]

It'll happen again in a few months too. It's a very earthquake active area.

 

[DarienA]

Thank God something to get Schiavo news off the "headline", sad that it has to be something like this though.

 

[NLB2]

Thank God something to get Schiavo news off the "headline"

Damn, even I find that to be a joke in bad taste.
But still - :lol :lol :lol

 

[The Take Out Bandit]

I don't take Darien's comments as a joke.

Fucking seriously - there is important stuff going on in the world. The last thing I want is another day of "news" coverage devoted to the death of a vegetable. Christ. =_=

It's been a crazy earthquake kind of year. I agree with CK, and hopefully if things do get worse they're prepared this time.

 

[Smiles and Cries]

Thank God something to get Schiavo news off the "headline", sad that it has to be something like this though.

I'm so glad I have no TV at this time I have no idea what a Schiavo is


but 8.2 is like whoa

 

[DarienA]

Damn, even I find that to be a joke in bad taste.
But still - :lol :lol :lol

It wasn't a joke. I'm tired of every little thing related to the Schiavo case being the cnn.com headline... where was all this concern years ago when she first became brain damaged? Where were all these well wishes and "specialist" who said she could be helped?

Whatever.

 

[karasu]

Jesus, it's like people just don't undersand.

 

[pxleyes]

It could be another hour before reports of any tsunami waves hitting would surface.

 

[COCKLES]

The old sketch of Dr Who on the island of Sumatra proved prothetic in this weeks episode then.

 

[Incognito]

 

[Meier]

It's since been upgraded to an 8.7 and there is a 100% chance that a tsunami will result according to a U.S. seismologist (r.e. Drudge Report).

 

[MIMIC]

Holy fucking shit.

 

[Lakitu]

Oh no, no no no no no no

 

[MIMIC]

MSNBC, CNN, Fox News...I see nothing about it on TV.

 

[NLB2]

:-(

 

[B'z-chan]

Man another quake? Siht i hate quakes sometimes, but goddamn.

 

[Diffense]

Just a few days ago I read a report that suggested another earthquake was very likely to occur very soon in the Indonesian archipelago. I guess they were spot on.

 

[karasu]

I saw this

Tsunami warnings were issued in Thailand, Japan and Sri Lanka, although officials in Thailand later called it off for that country. The only tsunami reported within four hours was a tiny one — less than 4 inches — at the Cocos Islands, 1,400 miles west of Australia, meteorologists in Sydney said.

 

[AirBrian]

Just a few days ago I read a report that suggested another earthquake was very likely to occur very soon in the Indonesian archipelago. I guess they were spot on.

Here's the report you probably saw:

Massive quake for Sumatra was predicted less than two weeks ago

PARIS (AFP) - With eerie precision, seismologists warned less than two weeks ago that Sumatra was at imminent risk of being hit by a quake of roughly the same magnitude that struck the Indonesian island.

In a study published on March 17, a British team said there was "potential" for a massive early temblor in the ocean floor west of Sumatra as a result of tensions stoked up there by the December 26 quake.

They said the quake could be as powerful as 8.5, and possibly generate a tsunami.

"There is no doubt -- our calculations show a very significant increase on stress on two major active faults in the Sumatra region," seismologist John McCloskey at Britain's University of Ulster told AFP in an interview on March 15.

"We are not trying to cry wolf," said McCloskey. "We can point to many other quakes where the stresses like the one we've measured have resulted in a following earthquake, and we are suggesting there is a significantly increased risk."

He added: "When it comes to earthquakes, lightning does strike twice."

McCloskey said that the indicators of an early, powerful quake in the Sumatra region were very strong, but admitted that no-one could tell exactly when such an event would occur.

But his warning was exceptional. It was as close as it gets to a prediction in a science whose practitioners are notoriously cautious about false alarms.

McCloskey explained that in so-called subduction zones, an earthquake can be swiftly followed by another one if certain geological conditions are met.

"There is a very well-established link between these stresses and following earthquakes," he said.

Energy released by the December 26 9.0-magnitude quake had boosted stress in adjoining parts of two dangerous faults, he said.

One fault runs under land to the east of the quake region and crosses the northwestern tip of Sumatra, running under the city of Banda Aceh, the capital of the Indonesian province that was badly hit by that event.

Banda Aceh was in fact rocked by a 5.9-magnitude quake last Friday.

The other fault, known as the Sunda Trench, runs under the sea to the south, parallel to the Sumatra coast, where two fatal tsunamis occurred in 1833 and 1861.

The December 26 movement ruptured 250,000 square kilometers (96,500 sq. miles) on a stretch of the Burma microplate, a narrow tongue of the Earth's crust that is jostled by the neighbouring Indian, Australian and Sunda plates.

That seabed plunge, by as much as 20 metres (65 feet), triggered the tsunami, killing more than 273,000 people in 11 nations on the northern rim of the Indian Ocean.

Part of the energy released by the quake was transferred to the contiguous fault sections. It distorted, compressed and deformed the rock, adding to the burden at known stress points and creating new ones.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050328/sc_afp/asiaquakescience_050328182630

 

[automagnus]

It's 8.7 not 8.2

 

[olimario]

Holy shit... end times ahoy!
2005
7 year tribulation
2012 end of tribulation rapture

shit

 

[NLB2]

Holy shit... end times ahoy!
2005
7 year tribulation
2012 end of tribulation rapture

shit

Just because you're Christian doesn't mean you have to be an idiot.

 

[Mr. E. Yis]

People trying to link natural catastrophes to religious 'signs' from God really piss me off. I don't know how many times I've heard or read that garbage in some tabloid magazine about the last earthquake/tsunami. Are people that stupid and gullible to believe that?

Holy shit... end times ahoy!
2005
7 year tribulation
2012 end of tribulation rapture

shit

I guess so.

 

[Iceman]

Uh.. he wasn't being serious.

 

[NLB2]

Uh.. he wasn't being serious.

So?

 

[WedgeX]

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7316846/

“It seems this earthquake did not trigger a tsunami. If it had, the tsunami would have hit the coastline of Sumatra by now,” said Prihar Yadi, a scientist with the Indonesia Geophysics Agency. “And if there’s no tsunami on the coastline near the epicenter of the quake, there will not be one heading in the other direction.”

296 dead from the quake, but no tsunami (take that, Drudge Report!).