What do you make of the tsunami?

[RICHARD]

A strange story about the tsumani..

The toll has risen to over 120,000 people.

The people providing help to the stricken areas have reported that there are very few, if any animal corpses found among the ruins.

[momoffuzzyfaces]

Originally posted by RICHARD
A strange story about the tsumani..

The toll has risen to over 120,000 people.

The people providing help to the stricken areas have reported that there are very few, if any animal corpses found among the ruins.

I've heard that animals can tell when an earthquake is going to occur.

Maybe they knew it was coming and headed for higher ground.

This is just so incredibly awful!

[RICHARD]

THIS STATISTIC MADE MY BLOOD RUN COLD.

For people never having been in an earthquake this will not mean much to you...


The area that suffered the 9.0 quake has had at least 50 'aftershocks' in the magnitude of 5.0 or greater.

Some as high as 6.5....

I counted forty and stopped....

[Jadapit]

Richard,
Thats so hard to even fathom! Wow!! I take it you have been in an earthquake? I can't even begin to imagine what that's like.

[petslover]

I watched the ABC special on it last night, and that is just horrible! God Bless all those people!

[RICHARD]

Originally posted by Jadapit
Richard,
Thats so hard to even fathom! Wow!! I take it you have been in an earthquake? I can't even begin to imagine what that's like.

71, 87, 94 and a few others.

http://www.losangelesalmanac.com/top...aster/di02.htm

Nothing bigger than 6.7

In 87 I was in the basement of a 10 story building..

I jumped underneath my desk and watch a stretch of 8 foot thick concrete ripple underneath me.

You find God, religion and the urge to stop all your bad behavior for a few weeks.....

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BTW,

6.7 sucks really bad...........SO, if 6.whatever are aftershocks......



All in all, NOT A GOOD WAY TO START OFF YOUR DAY.

[Jadapit]

Thanks for that link. Very interesting! Have you lived in Cali a long time? Do you ever want to leave there?

[RICHARD]

Originally posted by Jadapit
Thanks for that link. Very interesting! Have you lived in Cali a long time? Do you ever want to leave there?

Too long and no.

For all it's BS and goofy stuff- it's home!

I don't surf, I have dark hair, but, I do say DUDE alot.

[Kirsten]

Originally posted by momoffuzzyfaces
I've heard that animals can tell when an earthquake is going to occur.

Maybe they knew it was coming and headed for higher ground.

This is just so incredibly awful!

Strange, but maybe they really sensed something was going to happen, and they fled. Well, good that at least they have been spared...


BTW, I heard something on the news the other day, but I don't know if it's true or not. It has been reported that appearantly the people working on the Californian early warning system for earthquakes noticed that something was about to happen, but that the Californian coast wouldn't be affected, so they didn't give out a warning to their people. But they did not inform the now affected countries in South Asia either. And as we know, they don't have any warning sytems, and so the wave hit them - more or less - out of the blue...

Kirsten

[RICHARD]

Originally posted by Kirsten


BTW, I heard something on the news the other day, but I don't know if it's true or not. It has been reported that appearantly the people working on the Californian early warning system for earthquakes noticed that something was about to happen, but that the Californian coast wouldn't be affected, so they didn't give out a warning to their people. But they did not inform the now affected countries in South Asia either.

Thats' interesting. should you see a link would you post it?

The local Siesmologists, Kate Hutton and Lucy Jones (we know them because they are the faces we see soon ofter our shakers!!) didn't mention anything about it....

There are two different 'waves' that travel thru the earth's layers....

P and S waves

http://www.exploratorium.edu/faultli...qscience4.html

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There are such things as 'precursor' quakes, the Hollywood hills were hit by some small quakes before the 94 Northridge earthquake, but how can anyone tell if they are 'pre' earthquakes as opposed to small 'alone' earthquakes???

[Kirsten]

If I find one, I will. But I haven't got this info (rumour) from a website, I heard about it on tv.

Kirsten

[RICHARD]

Originally posted by Kirsten
If I find one, I will. But I haven't got this info (rumour) from a website, I heard about it on tv.

Kirsten

You can send me your TV....

[carole]

NZ like California is on the earthquake belt, and prone to them as well, we have had some biggies, infact one was at least 7 on the scale but was where it was basically un-populated, so the damage was very little.

If everyone in NZ gave 1 dollar that would raise 4million, imagine what other countries could give.

We still have many NZer's unaccounted for over there.

This is indeed just mind-blowing, imagine surviving this and then still have to cope with what is ahead.

The cricket team is touring NZ right now, they have opted to postpone the tour and go back home, there can be a 2 million dollar fine and they can be banned from playing for doing so, but NZ has done the decent thing, and agreed of course to them going, so all is sweet, no fines, and hopefully the guys can get back to their homeland and help with the clean up, luckily none of their families were lost, most are travelling with the team, and two of their mothers were injured, but you can imagine how the poor guys would feel.

[Paul]

   Kirsten, perhaps you are referring to the International Tsunami Information Center and the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii along with their Pacific tsunami warning system. Minutes after the quake they sent out a warning to 26 nations including Thailand and Indonesia. I have not seen a complete account of what they did and did not do.

   From TechNewsWorld, Tsunami Alerts Failed To Reach the Right People in Time

      Paul

[gini]

Originally posted by Tonya
That is one of the big things that I was wondering. I couldn't find anything in any of the articles about past earthquakes. Thanks, Paul.

http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/

Tonya, I haven't read the whole thread yet, so forgive me is someone else has given you this link. Gini