8.2 earthquake just hit Indonesian fault line where tsunami quake occured.

[Last Conformist]

Aggie, OTOH, deserves being thrown out from a 'copter over open sea, for being a baby-eating consie.

[MRT144]

Originally posted by Agathon

agathon, this is in responce to ned saying i deserved to be homeless because i make "vicious attacks" against him in a good portion of threads he makes. ned is a complete *******.

That's just wrong.

I on the other hand believe that you deserve to be homeless because you are a perverted, degenerate, liberal, enemy of Christian righteousness.

I hope you aren't offended.

well i know you like to kid so its not a big deal

[Agathon]

Aggie, OTOH, deserves being thrown out from a 'copter over open sea, for being a baby-eating consie.

He certainly does... burn him!!!*

* and have his ashes scattered over Natalie Portman.

[Docfeelgood]

Odd that all these water things should happen around Christian holidays.

[Frozzy]

Originally posted by Dissident
I don't understand why there is no tsunami. This is a good thing of course. But also troubling that we can't predict them. hmm

Because it's a relatively deep earthquake. Tsunami only occur when the seabed moves substantially, so a 9.0 eathquake which is quite shallow would move the seabed quite a lot.

With this one, the earthquake was deep enough for the seabed to not be affected terribly much, if at all, but naturally we can't tell if the quake is deep enough to avoid movement of the seabed until it's too late.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Dissident
I don't understand why there is no tsunami.

Quakes deep in the crust may not move the eart on the surface enough to displace large quantities of water. Also, if the quake was caused by two faults slipping horizontally, no water would be displaced. It's only when the sea floot moves up or down that a tsunami is produced.

[Docfeelgood]

Can't wait to see all the film of carnage,death and destruction

[Frozzy]

EDIT: X-post with Docfeelgood

Precisely.

Think about it. It's easy to lift a bucket full of water, but to lift a bucket full of water and, say, 3 bags of cement, it's not terribly easy, easpecially when your weaker.

The trouble with prediction is that there is not enough information available at the time of the quake to predict. It's only afterwards we know what type of quake it was. Additionally, there is no set mathematical formula to say "At this depth and at this magnitude, there will be a tsunami". We simply haven't got a large enough population of tsunami to choose from.

Additionally, there are many other variables, such as water depth, postion of the moon, time of day, time of year.. again, we simply do not have the population size of tsunami required to make accurate inferences as to whether a tsunami will strike.

This only applies to centres like the Pacific Early Warning System, who are far away. If we have many buoys in the ocean, which is essentially an Early Warning System specific to that region, we can use motions of the water to predict a tsunami (because a 1m wave among 30m waves repeated many times post earthquake would generally mean a tsunami). As it stands though, we simply cannot predict when one will strike.

[Boris Godunov]

50 fatalities on an island near the epicenter due to quake damage. No tsunami hit western Sumatra, but equipment recorded a "small" tsunami heading SW away from the epicenter in the Indian Ocean. Speculation is that the quake's energy ruptured south this time.

[Boris Godunov]

Man, my ignore list is going to increase exponentially in size today, it seems.

[Docfeelgood]

EDIT: X-post with Docfeelgood

Why?



Aren't you excited bout seeing hundred thousand people die?

Whats wrong with you?
Your not human!

[Kidlicious]

My give a **** is ****ed up. I don't know why. It bothers me.

[Docfeelgood]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
Man, my ignore list is going to increase exponentially in size today, it seems.

Sensative?



I'll share my popcorn with you while we wait for the showing of watery deaths



Im so excited!

[Docfeelgood]

Seriously


I went to MNSB site and watched a video of a news person stating that they are waiting for the vedios of the waves to come in and will keep the news desk posted.





MORBID

[Zulu Elephant]

Looks like there's going to be no tsunami. All the experts seem to be saying there wont be one and it seems that its only the news directors who are still holding out hope (and doc feelgood)

Wonder how many people died in the quake?