Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Earthquakes / July 2006

The Red Sea Parts Again
By Sara Goudarzi
LiveScience Staff Writer
posted: 19 July 2006

I am pleased to find that I am not the only person on the planet that
has a scientific view of the so called Coriolis Effect. The following
is in reference to small bowls draining:
"...centripetal accelerations in any observed spiraling motion cannot

If you take the quakes below 4M out of the following sit's list, the
run up to the Java quake and tsunami would have been in the region of
sparse to thinner
17th

Hi All.  A couple of weeks ago Petra got an invite to go on a tour of
Newberry Volcano in Oregon by a member of the Volcanological Society of
Sacramento.  Naturally I had to go along.
The Volcanological Society of Sacramento is a group of scientists,

It seems to me that those USGS "did you feel it" pages are not very helpful.
If people were badly effected they couldn't report it could they with all
communications down.
In the case of the Indonesian earthquake of 7.7 USGS posted it as slight

CERI has a seismograph at Pickwick Lake, Alabama, and on July 19 at
about 4:20 p.m. local time there was a microburst in the area from a
summer thunderstorm.  Per the NWS storm survey:
"Bear Creek portion of Pickwick Lake

Which makes the tsunami much less of a mystery.

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2006-07-
19T193827Z_01_N19301331_RTRUKOC_0_US-TSUNAMI-INDONESIA-USGS.xml
I wish the article would be more clear that the long delay in getting an
accurate magnitude for the quake was totally irrelevant to the ...

Gone "Orange" according to the latest report after the earthquake of 3.6.
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/Cascades/CurrentActivity/current_updates.html
Looks like a busy period for large volcanoes all over this year.
Fizz

MSNBC.com has a scathing indictment of the post-Andamen
Indian tsunami warning system.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13918266/
Apparently the Pacific Center issued a warning 45 minutes in advance,

Earthquake Warning  Posted by E.D.G.    July 14, 2006
http://www.freewebz.com/eq-forecasting/Data.html
Quite a few earthquake warning type signals were detected during the past
few days.  A fairly strong signal was also detected at 2006/07/09  22:43:00

Just heard on the news of an earthquake in the Indonesian area which
generated a one metre tsunami.
Some lives lost.
RexP

Hi all.  I was planning to post this morning even before last night's
quake, to say that 1) I am probably going to be more scarce in these
parts, having just gotten one of the promotions that every employee
dreams about: more work, more responsibility, more aggravation, no

I heard on the radio this morning that the M7 quake near Java at 2AM
EDT today
had a local tsunami.  Comments on the mechanism?  Thats on the small
side.

I think I'll go down the beach for the afternoon,..and slosh around in
the mantle, ..maybe even contribute a small sample to make the world
expand a bit through the transference of solar energy.    Don't know
how I'll manage if the Convection Police turn up and want to take a