Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Earthquakes / December 2005

NASA's Earth Observatory has released at least one picture of Monday's
eruption of Augustine which is available at the following link.
http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=13282

This is a kind forward of a communication on aus.ng
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This is just a small reminder of one who has left us sometimes back.
I wish we should not forget DC and his witty corrosive humour.
Wherever he is, let 's have a thought for him and wish him to Rest In Peace
Some part of us dies indeed,  when those we have  known go through the

OAKLAND - In a pioneering effort, a team of government scientists has
completed the first computerized maps of the upper 20 miles of the Earth
beneath the San Francisco Bay Area, showing in a glance why earthquakes
devastate some areas, while leaving others essentially unharmed.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=1397774
By ALICIA CHANG AP Science Writer
LOS ANGELES Dec 12, 2005 - Tsunami waves generated by a large offshore
earthquake would threaten at least 1 million coastal residents in

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqinthenews/2005/usgmat/
2005 December 11 14:20:44 UTC
Preliminary Earthquake Report
U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center

http://www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/latest/hemel_11_dec_05_seismo.pdf

Gulistan-e-Jauhar
Aftershocks halt hike in estate prices
By Wajid Rasheed Lodhi
KARACHI: Following the aftershocks witnessed in different parts of the

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4505818.stm
By Jonathan Amos
BBC News science reporter, San Francisco
A US scientist studying the islands off southern Sumatra says it is very

You know the one down there in Indonesia that has a name tha starts
with a V and is said to be the most deadly of all the volcanoes in the
past history with violent eruptions.  Perhaps
AOL will have something about it in their wonderful newsfeed :)

Why there were so many deaths in the Earthquake in Kashmir
The people of Chitral, Pakistan and the Nuristanis in Afghanistan
build their houses in such a way as to be earthquake-proof.
There were no deaths in Chitral during the recent earthquake, even

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/05/020530072538.htm
A Columbia University scientist studying an active seafloor volcano in the
Pacific Ocean has determined that there is a correlation between the hundreds of
micro earthquakes she recorded and the ocean tides.

Does anyone know what the run up limits in the Cook Inlet were in the 1883
collapse of the north flank of Augustine?
Does anyone know who did the modeling of this event... IIRC it may have been
published in the late 1990s?

I believe you are completely right and a major city of the World is most
likely to be wiped out of the map soon.
The scenario is going to be most likely of the Lisbon 1755 type quake, with
consecutive Tsunami, and penetration of the sea over 20 km inland in