Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Earthquakes / March 2005

1868 tsunami destroys a town
On the U.S. gunboat Wateree, steaming off the coast of Chile in 1868,
few if any of its crew had any concept of what a tsunami was or the
damage one could inflict.

A kind forward of a post I publihed in Australia a while back, and which met
with incredible interest there.
It's  slightly off topic here, but this is the 1st time it happens, and I
beforehand apologize for it

Where is that bloody Tsunami you predicted to break over the heads in
Sydney, I'm sick and tired of waiting in me tinny in the western suburbs
mate.My beards about a footlong and am getting sunburnt, also getting
strange looks from people with me in my boat on top of my house.

Hundreds May Be Dead in Indonesia Quake
By Michael Casey
Associated Press Writer
The Associated Press

MSNBC cable news is reporting that Officials in Jakarta, Indonesia is reporting
dozens dead on Nias Island, and a small Tsunami was reported on Cocos Islands.

So Tommiboi, have you grabbed your telephone yet? Are
you madly dialing numbers? Are you calling everyone in
the Indian Ocean to warn them of the tsunami? Better
hurry up, that's a lot of dialing!!! Shame on you if

Clearly a new rupture, of the 1861 rupture area.
Fortunately, seems no large tsunami.

On Tuesday, Nova will run a program on the Sumatra Tsunami.  The following
hour, there will be a program about Krakatoa.  I don't know if this is a
new program, or a rerun of the 1983 documentary.

This is a report from the Guardian dated back to June 2004 . Therefore
nearly a year later you can put the figures down to nearly mud-caking level
. Perth water reserves are below the 10 % mark at the present time and
falling fast !!!

Several 3.0+ quakes overnight.
The webicorders have been screwed up, last night they basically stalled for
a while, this morning I see all of 0Z-12Z up but no 12Z or later records.
Also a big storm going on, can't see the mountain at all on the webcam.

Hi all.  I haven't been able to follow discussions here in recent
weeks, but am popping in to offer a bit of reading that might be of
interest, and best of all, it's a freebie.  The article appears in the
March issue of Geotimes, a publication of the American Geological

Please tell me why is there earthquake ?
How does the term Earthquake come into being ?
Thank you
Gunder Ross

Nothing at all.
He's dead.
Some facts about the late Sollog:

Foreshock sequences and short-term earthquake predictability on East
Pacific Rise transform faults
JEFFREY J. MCGUIRE, MARGARET S. BOETTCHER & THOMAS H. JORDAN
http://info.nature.com/cgi-bin24/DM/y/eShH0HVZpW0Ch0cDa0EW

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/03/16/next.quake.ap/index.html
LONDON, England (AP) -- A buildup of stress on faults in Sumatra is likely to
trigger another large earthquake -- and potentially another tsunami -- in the
Indian Ocean region, seismologists say.