Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Earthquakes / January 2005

Does anyone know how high were the waves of the tsunami that hit Asia?
and how far in-coast they went?

In anticipation of Australia 17th next dreadful event and rightly
anticipated 9.2 Sydney Quake,  let's hope Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka,
Papua-New Guinea, Congo; Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Uganda  etc will come to the
rescue ... and stay there to help

I don't want to speculate about irrational conspiracy theories, but what
is the possibility and history of man made earthquakes and tsunamis?
And why did the U.N. pass a proclamation in 1977 specifically prohibiting
the creation of environmental modifications like quakes and ...

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqinthenews/2004/usslav/neic_slav_faq.html
Magnitude 9.0 OFF W COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATRA
Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 00:58:49 UTC
Question: Can we expect many aftershocks to this earthquake?

Could someone confirm my comments about the last earthquake in Sumatra ?
In a french page devoted to the earty and impacts, I have written that the
Indian plate moved by subduction of about 15 km below the Burma plate and
that about 1200 km of the burman plate slided of about 20 m ...

Those fragile cultures
By Ajoy Bagchi
Op-Ed
The Pioneer

Island in the sea
Rajeev R Roy recaps his days of reporting
on the destruction caused by the Tsunami
in the Andaman and Nicobar islands

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6867
a.. 11:15 13 January 2005
a.. Exclusive from New Scientist Print Edition
a.. Justin Mullins

Lots of great graphics
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2005/s2365.htm
Jan 10, 2005 - After reviewing data from four Earth-orbiting radar satellites,
NOAA scientists today announced they were able to measure the height of the

If you think you've had a bad day, take a look at this boulder:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=401602

One of the science-related cable & satellite channels such as the "Discovery
Channel" already (just two weeks after the event) has a one-hour documentary of
the day's tense activities in Honolulu where 3 scientists whose job it was to
man the Tsunami Warning Center looked on ...

This was in a VERY local paper.  I searched today's Los Angeles newspaper
and did not find it.   I searched everywehre.  Nothing about that forum at
Caltech last night.   So I contacted caltech media relations - and this was
sent to me in reply.

Reposted from
<http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/morford>
TBerk
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I KNOW HOW I CAN HELP WITHOUT GIVING A SINGLE PENCE!!!!!
I have been looking at all of those poor people that the tsunami has
ravaged.
All of them are walking.