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First, a moment to reflect on the hundreds of thousands who lost their lives in the terror of a Tsunami wave.
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Another Discussion & Info Source here in this forum :
Tsunami by Quake? Bomb? Comet? EM? ( - Science & Technolgy Group )
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The QED Earthquake Bulletin ( List Of Current EarthQuakes ) :
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US Geological Survey Report :
26th of December, 2004
Today's shallow, thrust-type earthquake occurred off the west coast of northern Sumatra at the interface between the India and Burma plates. In this region, the Burma plate is characterized by significant strain partitioning due to oblique convergence of the India and Australia plates to the west and the Sunda and Eurasian plates to the east. Off the west coast of northern Sumatra, the India plate is moving in a northeastward direction at about 5 cm per year relative to the Burma plate. The devastating megathrust earthquake of December 26th, 2004 occurred on the interface of the India and Burma plates and was cause by the release of stresses that develop as the India plate subducts beneath the overriding Burma plate. The India plate begins its decent into the mantle at the Sunda trench which lies to the west of the earthquake's epicenter. The trench is the surface expression of the India-Burma plate interface. The tectonics of the region is complex and involves the interaction of the Australian, Sunda and Eurasian plates in addition to the India and Burma plate. The India and Australia plates move northeastwards at a rate of about 6 cm/year relative to the Burma plate. This results in oblique convergence at the Sunda trench. Some of this oblique motion is accommodated on the right-lateral transform faults and rifts that separate the Burma and Sunda plates.
ANOTHER EARTHQUAKE :
Magnitude 8.7 Northern Sumatra, INDONESIA
Monday, March 28, 2005 at 16:09:36 UTC
Preliminary Earthquake Report : U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center, World Data Center for Seismology, Denver.
The earthquake of March 28, 2005 occurred principally on the interface of the Australia plate and Sunda plate and was caused by the release of stresses that develop as the Australia plate subducts beneath the overriding Sunda plate. The Australia plate begins its descent into the mantle at the Sunda trench, which lies to the southwest of the earthquake's epicenter. At this latitude, the trench is the surface expression of the plate interface between the Australia plate and the Sunda plate.
In the region of the earthquake, the Australia plate moves toward the northeast at a rate of about 5 cm/year relative to the Sunda plate. This results in oblique convergence at the Sunda trench. The oblique motion is partitioned into thrust-faulting, which occurs on the plate-interface and which involves slip directed perpendicular to the trench, and strike-slip faulting, which occurs several hundred kilometers northeast of the trench and involves slip directed parallel to the trench. The March 28 earthquake occurred as the result of thrust faulting. This earthquake was likely triggered by stress changes caused by the December 2004 (M9.0) earthquake. However, it occurred on a segment of the fault 100 miles (160 kilometers) to the southeast of the rupture zone of the M9.0 Sumatra earthquake.
The counter-clockwise rotation of the new Australian plate in relation to the Indian Plate has led to compression in the Eastern boundary near Indonesia and tension in teh Western part of the new plate. The series of earth quakes that took place were on teh eastern boundary of the new plate. The India and Australia plates move northeastwards at a rate of about 6 cm/year relative to the Burma plate. This results in oblique convergence at the Sunda trench.
The most recent magnitude 8+ earthquake in the immediate region of this earthquake occurred in 1861. The 1861 earthquake generated a regionally destructive tsunami. Another earthquake of similar magnitude occurred further south in 1833.
Tsunami from 9.0 magnitude undersea earthquake in Sumatra devastated coastal areas and killed over 180,000 across Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, India, Maldives, Myanmar, and Somalia and dozens of other areas.
Two earthquakes on same day :
12/26/2004_00:58:50_UTC_Magnitude_9__West Cost Of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia.
12/26/2004_04:21:25_UTC_Magnitude_7.5_Nicobar Islands, India.
More Info :
http://www.rpi.edu/~mccafr/sumatra04/http://www.miqel.com/tsunami-asia-historic...-solutions.htmlhttp://iri.columbia.edu/~lareef/tsunami/http://www.olympus.net/personal/gofamily/q.../32804quake.gif-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The word "Tsunami" is Japanese for "Harbour Wave".
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Causes of Tsunamis :
Shallow undersea earthquakes are responsible for most tsunamis though at time landslides triggered by smaller seismic events can also generated potentially lethal waves. Strong earthquakes cause a displacement of the crust. When they occur underwater, this crustal movement disturbs a large volume of water like a giant paddle and ripples spread out in all directions at speeds of 600-800 kilometres per hour, comparable to commercial aircraft. In the open ocean, they go unnoticed but once they reach shallower waters they slow down and begin to crest. The waves thus given rise to are known as "Tsunamis". They are scientifically described as a series of very long wavelength ocean waves caused by the sudden displacement of water by earthquakes, landslides, or submarine slumps and are mostly caused by earthquakes of magnitude 7.5 or greater. The run-up of a tsunami is the maximum height above normal sea level up to which the water level rose during a tsunami.
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Nuclear seismology :
An underground nuclear explosion sets up a shock wavenear the point of detonation which interacts with the sur-rounding geological medium. This shock wave vaporizes, melts, plastically deforms and fractures the surrounding rocks and then degenerates into elastic waves. Only asmall portion of the total energy released by an under-ground explosion is converted into seismic waves. Theratio of the elastic wave energy to the total energy is known as seismic efficiency. The seismic efficiency depends on the physical characteristics of the surrounding medium and the source parameters. The seismic waves produced by an underground explosion travel through thebody of the earth as well as along its surface. The waves that propagate through the body of the earth are called body waves which comprise compressional P waves and shear S waves. At short distances (up to 2000 km) from the source the path of the body waves is through the crust and top portion of upper mantle and these waves areknown as regional seismic waves. The waves observed beyond 2000 km which travel through the fairly homo-geneous mantle and the core, are termed as teleseismic waves. Theoretically, in an isotropic medium, P waves travel with a velocity √3 times that of the S waves and the frequency content of P waves is usually higher than thatof S waves. Among surface waves, two groups of waves, viz. Rayleigh ® waves, with vertical elliptic particle motion along the direction of wave propagation and the Love (L)waves, with horizontally polarized shear motion perpen-dicular to the direction of propagation are seen promi-nently at regional distances. The period of R waves varies from 3 s to 200 s. At regional distances, higher mode Love and Raleigh waves, called Lg waves, form strong group of arrivals before the fundamental mode Love waves with an average velocity of 3.5 km/s. The short period Lg waves from explosions are predominant in the frequency band of 0.2 to 1 Hz and have in general large amplitudes among the regional phases. It may be pointed out that the surface features produced by an underground explosion are heavily dependent upon the geo-physical properties of rock medium in the vicinity of the explosion and which may also vary from place to place even in thesame testing range.
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Very Interesting info / site ...
Some Historical Notes : - valdostaMuseum.org
History Of Our Known Universe and Planet Earth :
http://www.valdostamuseum.org/hamsmith/Hist.htmlEarly Human Civilization :
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Movie "MeltDown" , "Deep Core" , "The Core"
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"Israel-India nuke test caused tsunami." - Sepia Mutiny.
http://www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/archives/000900.htmlThe earthquake that struck the Indian Ocean on December 26, triggering a series of huge waves called tsunami, “was possibly” caused by an Indian nuclear experiment in which “Israeli and American nuclear experts participated,” an Egyptian weekly magazine reported Thursday. Since 1992, the magazine argued, leading geological centers in Britain, Turkey and other countries, warned of the need “not to hold nuclear experiments in the region of the Indian Ocean known as ‘the Fire Belt,’ in which the epicenter of the earthquake lies.
Sepia Mutiny reader Julie T alerts us to others : “There’s a lot more to this. Why is the US sending a warship? Why is a senior commander who was in Iraq going there?” whispered designer Mark Tyler, drinking a pint of beer at a bar in Hong Kong’s Wan Chai district. “This happened exactly a year after Bam,” said Tyler, referring to the earthquake in Iran which killed 30,000 on December 26 last year(2003). “Is that a coincidence? And there was no previous seismic activity recorded in Sumatra before the quake, which is very strange,” he said, nodding sombrely.
… Among the more common suggestions is that eco-weapons, which can trigger earthquakes and volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves, were being tested. More outlandish theories include one that aliens caused the earthquake to try and correct the “wobbly rotation of the Earth”.
Other info sources :
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread111242/pg1http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/commo...55E1702,00.htmlhttp://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pag...d=1104981578311http://whackingday.com/permarch_jan05/4jan05.htmhttp://canterbury.cyberplace.org.nz/peace/...viro.html#underhttp://www.atomicarchive.com/Reports/India/IndiaEvents.shtmlhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1388781/postshttp://www.motherearth.org/nuke/info3.php----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
One of the Member of "Sepia Mutiny" posted this below comment/info :
cameron on January 20, 2005 12:53 PM.
Professor Gary T. Whiteford is a geography professor at the University of New Brunswick in Canada. He has done extensive research concerning the correlation of underground nuclear explosions directly causing EARTHQUAKES. In April of 1989, Professor Whiteford presented his research paper titled NUCLEAR BOMBS and EARTHQUAKES-DANGEROUS PATTERNS and TRENDS to the 2nd annual United Nation and World Peace Conference held in Seattle, Washington. Professor Whiteford personally distributed 50 copies of his Research Thesis at this conference. His Fax email.
This also might explain why the U.S. Military-State Dept., even tho having advance warning of the Tsunami failed to warn the appropriate South East Asian officials.
US had advance warning of tsunami: Canadian professor --A Canadian expert has claimed that the US Military and the State Department were given advance tsunami warning and American Navy base on the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean was notified but the information was not passed on to the countries that bore the brunt of the disaster. Prof. Michel Chossudovsky of the University of Ottawa asks in an analysis produced for the Venus Project why fishermen in India, Sri Lanka and Thailand were not provided with the same warnings as the US Navy and the US State Department.
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Early Warnings :
While earthquakes could not be predicted in advance, once the earthquake was detected it was possible to give about 3 hours of notice of a potential Tsunami. Such a system of warnings is in place across the Pacific Ocean but not in the Indian Ocean. In addition, coastal dwellers are educated in the Pacific littoral to get to high ground quickly following tremors and waves.
More Info :
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... warning ... !!?? " Tsunami WARNING " ... ???? which happens right after an earthquake ... ??? .... ( or, in another language, ... move our own people ...tsunami coming ... but let the others die !! ... don't tell/alert them to move !! this will be our way of attack ... )
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Tsunami warning systems and tide gauges exist around the Pacific Ocean, for the Pacific Rim as well as South America. The United States has such warning centers in Hawaii and Alaska operated by the U.S. Geological Survey.
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Records from the US Geological Survey
Earthquake location and magnitude as detected / recorded by the US Geological Services Earth Quake Network provided the sequence of Earthquakes with those in Red being above 6.0 in the Richter Scale.
MAP 6.3 2004/12/26 11:05:01 13.542 92.877 10.0 ANDAMAN ISLANDS, INDIA REGION
MAP 6.2 2004/12/26 10:19:30 13.455 92.791 10.0 ANDAMAN ISLANDS, INDIA REGION
MAP 6.5 2004/12/26 09:20:01 8.867 92.382 10.0 NICOBAR ISLANDS, INDIA REGION
MAP 5.8 2004/12/26 07:38:25 13.119 93.051 10.0 ANDAMAN ISLANDS, INDIA REGION
MAP 5.7 2004/12/26 07:07:10 10.336 93.756 10.0 ANDAMAN ISLANDS, INDIA REGION
MAP 5.7 2004/12/26 06:21:58 10.623 92.323 10.0 ANDAMAN ISLANDS, INDIA REGION
MAP 7.3 2004/12/26 04:21:26 6.901 92.952 10.0 NICOBAR ISLANDS, INDIA REGION
MAP 6.1 2004/12/26 03:08:42 13.808 92.974 10.0 ANDAMAN ISLANDS, INDIA REGION
MAP 5.9 2004/12/26 02:59:12 3.177 94.259 10.0 OFF THE WEST COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATRA
MAP 6.0 2004/12/26 02:51:59 12.511 92.592 10.0 ANDAMAN ISLANDS, INDIA REGION
MAP 5.8 2004/12/26 02:36:06 12.139 93.011 10.0 ANDAMAN ISLANDS, INDIA REGION
MAP 5.8 2004/12/26 02:34:50 4.104 94.184 10.0 OFF THE WEST COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATRA
MAP 6.0 2004/12/26 02:22:02 8.838 92.532 10.0 NICOBAR ISLANDS, INDIA REGION
MAP 5.8 2004/12/26 02:15:58 12.375 92.509 10.0 ANDAMAN ISLANDS, INDIA REGION
MAP 5.9 2004/12/26 01:48:47 5.393 94.423 10.0 NORTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA
MAP 8.9 2004/12/26 00:58:51 3.298 95.779 10.0 OFF THE WEST COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATRA
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The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center Detected the Earthquake and after 15 minutes issued a communique to Pacific Islands saying that there shall be no threats to them and also advises that there is a Tsunami watch going on but not an alert. 65 minutes later a second communique repeats the same information and says that there may a possibility of a Tsunami at the epicenter (
http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/olderwmsg ). The tragedy is that this information was not communicated to the Indian Ocean region. The NOAA officers says that they did not have the addresses of the appropriate officials.
Look at issuing time
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TSUNAMI BULLETIN NUMBER 002
PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER/NOAA/NWS
ISSUED AT 0204Z 26 DEC 2004
THIS BULLETIN IS FOR ALL AREAS OF THE PACIFIC BASIN EXCEPT
ALASKA - BRITISH COLUMBIA - WASHINGTON - OREGON - CALIFORNIA.
.................. TSUNAMI INFORMATION BULLETIN ..................
ATTENTION: NOTE REVISED MAGNITUDE.
THIS MESSAGE IS FOR INFORMATION ONLY. THERE IS NO TSUNAMI WARNING
OR WATCH IN EFFECT.
AN EARTHQUAKE HAS OCCURRED WITH THESE PRELIMINARY PARAMETERS
ORIGIN TIME - 0059Z 26 DEC 2004
COORDINATES - 3.4 NORTH 95.7 EAST
LOCATION - OFF W COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATERA
MAGNITUDE - 8.5
EVALUATION
REVISED MAGNITUDE BASED ON ANALYSIS OF MANTLE WAVES.
THIS EARTHQUAKE IS LOCATED OUTSIDE THE PACIFIC. NO DESTRUCTIVE
TSUNAMI THREAT EXISTS FOR THE PACIFIC BASIN BASED ON HISTORICAL
EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI DATA.
THERE IS THE POSSIBILITY OF A TSUNAMI NEAR THE EPICENTER.
THIS WILL BE THE ONLY BULLETIN ISSUED FOR THIS EVENT UNLESS
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION BECOMES AVAILABLE.
THE WEST COAST/ALASKA TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER WILL ISSUE BULLETINS
FOR ALASKA - BRITISH COLUMBIA - WASHINGTON - OREGON - CALIFORNIA.
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... 0204Z means ... 02:04 GMT / UTC time, and this is 2nd bulletin
Some saying Warning System Could have Saved Thousands. All they needed is to make calls to Indonesian, Indian, SriLankan or Maldivian police / border patrol / marine patroll or other authority to make a quick TV & radio announcement to move away from the shore. Or, an anouncement in sattelite news company.
MORE THAN TWO HOURS passed ... no one did anything ... those who knew, simply ignored the value of human LIVES
USA didn't even broadcast / cover this event properly, right after when it happened, ( like all the other really real / true news, ) so that killing of more people in Iraq can continue. They have kept their propaganda media/news going on ... brainwashing more American peoples. Whereas whole world's all of the major news media were already covering this disaster/trajedy. Why that happened ? why wasn't this one of the priority ... at USA ? can you guess ??
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Effect Of Nuclear Tests :
Subsequent studies of large volcanic explosions, such as Mt. Agung on Bali in 1963, have raised the possibility that large-scale injection of dust into the stratosphere would reduce sunlight intensities and temperatures at the surface, while increasing the absorption of heat in the upper atmosphere.
This happened ....
Much of our knowledge of the production and distribution of radionuclides has been derived from the period of intensive nuclear testing in the atmosphere during the 1950's and early 1960's. It is estimated that more than 500 megatons of nuclear yield were detonated in the atmosphere between 1945 and 1971, about half of this yield being produced by a fission reaction. The peak occurred in 1961-62, when a total of 340 megatons were detonated in the atmosphere by the United States and Soviet Union. the largest earthquake ever measured—the magnitude 9.5 earthquake was in Chile on May 22, 1960.
More info :
http://www.cold-war.info/nukwr10.htmlhttp://canterbury.cyberplace.org.nz/peace/...viro.html#underhttp://www.atomicarchive.com/Reports/India/IndiaEvents.shtml---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Nuclear Testing List / Chronology :
http://www.atomicarchive.com/Almanac/TestingChronology.shtmlNuclear Information : US nuclear weapons in Europe
http://www.motherearth.org/nuke/info3.phpUS Redesigning Atomic Weapons
http://www.wagingpeace.org/articles/2005/0...ing-weapons.htmRussia performed three subcritical nuclear tests
http://www.bellona.no/imaker?id=17814&sub=1Underground Explosions are Music to Their Ears : LosAlam Nat Lab and Lawrnc Livrmr Nat Lab ... LYNER facility
http://www.llnl.gov/str/Conrad.htmlSoviet nuclear testing, August 29, 1949 - October 24, 1990 - by Robert S. Norris and William M. Arkin in 1998
http://www.thebulletin.org/article_nn.php?art_ofn=mj98norrisNuclear fallout : Nuclear Preparation Of USA, France
http://sln.fi.edu/inquirer/fallout.htmlFalse Accusations, Undetected Tests and Implications for the CTB Treaty & Recent Events
http://www.armscontrol.org/act/1998_05/vimy98.aspThe Marshall Islands Weapons Testing (by USA)List 1951 to 1959
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Nuclear Devastation / Effects :
Atmospheric Nuclear Tests In NATIVE AMERICAN Domains
PACIFIC OCEAN AND NEVADA
http://www.angelfire.com/sk/syukhtun/pacificbombs.htmlCastle Bravo nuclear test, by USA - 1954
http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/nuclear/ra...s/1954USA1.htmlWorldwide Effects Of Nuclear War
http://www.cold-war.info/nukwr10.htmlImpacts of underground nuclear tests
http://www.geocities.com/m_v_ramana/nuclea...groundtests.htmThe legacies of Moruroa and Fangataufa
http://www.antenna.nl/wise/496/4906.htmlEnvironmental Effects of French Nuclear Testing
http://canterbury.cyberplace.org.nz/peace/...viro.html#underThe Effects of nuclear weapons
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What other great (M > 8) Earthquakes have occurred in the region?
Since 1900 and prior to the December 26 earthquake, the largest earthquake along the subduction zone from southern Sumatra to the Andaman Islands occurred in 2000 and had a magnitude of 7.9. A magnitude 8.4 earthquake occurred in 1797, a magnitude 8.5 in 1861 and a magnitude 8.7 in 1833 . All three ruptured sections of the subduction zone to the south of the recent earthquake. Interestingly, the 1797 and 1833 quakes are believed to have ruptured roughly the same area with only 36 years separating the events. Paleoseismic evidence indicates that over the past millennium, the islands have risen during giant earthquakes or earthquake couplets about every 230 years.
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8/26/1883 Krakatau Volcanic Eruption
A series of three explosions on the morning of the 27 th of August 1883 about 05.28 local time in Krakatoa led to the destruction of Kraktoa's mountain peak and led to a tsunami that propagated across the Indian Ocean. Thereafter at 6.36 high peak(500m) at Danan exploded and collapsed and the thrid blast tore the remaining part of Krakatau Island (Rakata Island, Indonesia) apart. The explosion was heard more than 3000 miles away. Krakatau (Krakatoa) is located in the Sunda Strait, 40 km off the west coast of Java on the island of Rakata in Indonesia. After a long period of inactivity (about 200 years), Krakatoa became active again in early 1883. The first indication that something was happening on Krakatoa was when a large earthquake struck the area. Seismic activity became stronger until May 20,1883, when the volcano abruptly came to life. By August 11, 1883. three vents were actively erupting. Eleven other vents were ejecting smaller quantities of steam, ash and dust. At least 36,000 people were killed particularly in Java and Sumatra; wave heights rearched 15 to 42 meters.
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6/26/1941 Andaman Islands, India
The Tsunami of 1941 following an earthquake in the Bay of Bengal was detected in Sri Lanka. Magnitude 7.7. It was centred (5) in the Bay of Bengal, roughly, 20.5 kilometres W of Flat Island, India, or, 23.6 kilometres WNW of Yadita (Middle Andaman Isl.), India, or, 96.7 kilometres NNW of Port Blair (South Andaman Island), India, or, 617 kilometres SW of Yangon, Myanmar, or, 834 kilometres NNW of Banda Aceh (Sumatera), Indonesia. The earthquake was followed by several powerful aftershocks (5). Two magnitude 6.0 events struck within 24 hours of the main shock on June 27th, 1941. The first occurred at 07:32:47 UTC and was followed by another at 08:32:19 UTC. These were then followed by 14 earthquakes of magnitude 6.0 upto January 1942. Nearly 5,000 people were killed by the tsunami on the east coast of India.
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11/27/1945
An earthquake of magnitude 8.25 occurred about 70 kilometers south of Karachi (Pakistan) at 24.5 N and 63.0 E on November 27, 1945. This created a large tsunami of about 11.0 to 11.5 meters high on the coasts of India in the Kutchch region, as reported by Pendse (1945).
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In the Hawaiian islands, tsunami have struck repeatedly, causing great loss of life and immense damage to property. Most noteworthy of the recent Hawaiian tsunami is that of 1 April 1946 which inundated and destroyed the city of Hilo, killing 159 people. Other recent tsunami that have hit Hawaii occurred in 1952, 1957, 1960, 1964 and 1975. One of the most devastating recent tsunami was generated by a large earthquake in the Moro Gulf in the Philippines on 16 August 1976. The tsunami waves killed over 8,000 people in Mindanao, leaving 10,000 injured and 90,000 more homeless. In August 1977 a large earthquake in the Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia generated a destructive tsunami which killed hundreds of people on Lombok and Sumbawa Islands along the eastern side of the Indian Ocean. Another devastating tsunami occurred on 12 December 1979 in the south-west corner of Colombia destroying several fishing villages, taking the lives of hundreds of people and creating economic chaos in an already economically depressed region of that country. Many more events have occurred in the last twenty years. In 1960 Magnitude of 9.5 at Chile earthquake, in 1964 the magnitude 9.2 Prince William Sound, Alaska earthquake, in 1957 the magnitude 9.1 Andreanof, Alaska earthquake, and in 1952 the magnitude 9.0 Kamchatka earthquake.
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08/17/1999 Turkey 7.4 M
This earthquake is located about 70 miles (110 km) west of the Turkey earthquake of 11/12/1999 M7.2. Over 17,000 people were killed and 50,000 were injured. The quake occurred along the North Anatolian Fault, a long break that allows movement between plates of the Earth's crust. In some areas, one side of the fault moved 12 feet compared to the other side. The shock was the seventh large quake to rock the fault since 1939, and was rated at magnitude 7.4. This fault is very similar to the San Andreas fault in California, USA. Starting in 1939, the North Anatolian fault produced a sequence of major earthquakes, of which the 1999 event is the 11th with a magnitude greater than or equal to 6.7. Starting with the 1939 event in western Turkey, the earthquake locations have moved both eastward and westward. The westward migration was particularly active and ruptured 600 km of contiguous fault between 1939 and 1944. This westward propagation of earthquakes then slowed and ruptured an additional adjacent 100 km of fault in events in 1957 and 1967, with separated activity further west during 1963 and 1964. The August 17, 1999 event fills in a 100 to 150 km long gap between the 1967 event and the 1963 and 1964 events. This gap was first noted by Toksoz, Shakal, and Michael in 1979 and it's hazard was later analyzed by Stein, Barka, and Dieterich in 1997. The latter paper estimated that there was a 12% chance of this earthquake occurring in the 30 years from 1996 to 2026. Scientists say the 45-second quake, felt throughout the Balkans, is one of the strongest of the 20th Century. A 6.3-magnitude quake hit Turkey on June 27, 1998, killing 144 people and injuring more than 1,500 in and around the southern city of Adana.
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06/20/1990 Manjil, Iran, 7.3 M
In 1990 (June, 20 at 21.00 GMT, 30 minutes after midnight, local time) a ruinous earthquake of magnitude 7.3 occurred in the Manjil area, about 100 kilometers southwest of the Caspian Sea in the north of Iran. During this event the towns of Manjil, Rudbar and Lushan, as well as about 700 villages totally destroyed, and at least 300 more villages partly to slightly damaged resulting in forty thousand fatalities, sixty thousand injured and five hundred thousand homeless.
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11/12/1999 Turkey 7.2 M
A major earthquake occurred 45 miles (70 km) east of Adapazari or 105 miles (170 km) northwest of Ankara, Turkey. at 10:57 AM MDT today, Nov 12, 1999 (6:57 PM local time in Turkey). A preliminary magnitude of 7.2 was computed for this earthquake. At least 30,000 people killed, 30,000 injured, 85 percent of buildings damaged or destroyed and infrastructure damaged in the Bam area.
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12/26/2003 SouthEastern Iran , Magnitude 6.6 - at 01:56:52 UTC (6 am local time)
185 km (115 miles) SE of Kerman, Iran, 255 km (160 miles) WSW of Zahedan, 265 km (165 miles) E of Sirjan, 990 km (610 miles) SE of Tehran. about 26,000 people dead and with tens of thousands injured. 12 Seconds. The old quarter and a 2,000-year-old citadel (severely damaged by the earthquake) were built primarily of mud brick.
More info:
http://www.disasterscharter.org/graphics/d...w_QuickLook.jpgIran earthquake triggered by HAARP ?
http://www.propagandamatrix.com/271203iranearthquake.htmlBam: Iran's Ancient City
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12/26/2004 Sumatra Earthquake and Tsunami
At 9.0 Magnitude, this was the largest earthquake in the world since the 1964 Alaskan quake. It struck on December 26 at 6:58 AM local time (00:58 GMT). The epicenter was 255 km (160 miles) SSE of Banda Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia 315 km (195 miles) W of Medan, Sumatra, Indonesia 1260 km (790 miles) SSW of BANGKOK, Thailand 1590 km (990 miles) NW of JAKARTA, Java, Indonesia. Another earthquake occured same day at 04:21:25 UTC with Magnitude of 7.5 at Nicobar Islands, India, little north-west of the previous epicenter.
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2/22/2005 Kerman,Iran Quake
This 6.4M quake hit Central Iran Tuesday, February 22, 2005 at 02:25AM (GMT) or 5:55 AM local time.
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3/20/2005 Japan Quake
This 6.4M quake hit 570 miles west of Tokyo, off the coast of the island of Kyushu, Japan at 01:53AM (GMT) or 10:53 AM local time. Some news reports rated the quake as a Magnitude 7, which would have been much more powerful than the 6.4 Magnitude reported by the USGS. Many buildings were damaged, utilities were cut off, 1 person was killed and another 250 were injured. Tall buildings swayed in Fukuoka. Numerous aftershocks have followed the main quake. Intial fears that the quake would generate a tsunami proved unfounded.
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3/28/2005 Sumatra Quake
This 8.7M quake was centered off the West coast of Northern Sumatra. Earthquakes over Magnitude 8 are classified as "Great" Earthquakes. "Great" quakes are relatively rare and usually very destructive. By comparison, this earthquake was considerably larger than the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and indeed larger than any seen in the US outside of Alaska. Of course damage from any quake is due to a number of factors including density of population, building methods and materials, local geology and the duration of shaking. This quake struck at 4:09 PM (GMT) or 11:09 PM local time. Shaking lasted 3 minutes, which is a long time for an earthquake. There have been at least 518 people confirmed killed and thousands displaced. A few people were pulled alive from the rubble after 4 days. Worst hit was the island of Nias, where electricity and water supplies have been disrupted. Roads and runways across the island have large cracks across them and are in many cases unusable. Also hard hit was the nearby island of Simeulue. Fires have raged unchecked with fire fighting equipment buried in rubble.
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if you still have doubt ... then you should know .... under(/over) ground nuclear blast causes earthquakes ... under(/over) ground nuclear blast also causes tsunami
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if all the seismic data, electricity usage, radiation data from satellite images/scans, other data from all possible sources from all over the world are taken into account ... for sure, we will be able to goto the actual source of these quakes.
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Earthquakes not suppose to follow a pattern, but in those earthquakes, there is a pattern. many one is finding / seeing it. if you look at previous quakes, you can easily see, its randomness and also the ones caused by after-effect of human (nuclear/bomb). why isn't it happenning in pure random ??
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it is now a proven fact that earth's temperature has increased by couple of degrees.
at that ( Indonesia Tsunami, Bam(Iran) qauke ) time earth was very near to sun.
earth magnetic polarty strength dropped, it is already 10% less. ( last magnetic polar shift happened 780,000 yrs before. magnetic polar shift suppose to happen every 200,000 yrs, so it is way over due. ) Aurora showing up / increased during the last 300 years.
too many underground (nuclear) bombs been used throught all over the world.
most likely those earthquakes are natural process, but also possible to start / trigger them, by using current destructive use of different hidden / open technologies.
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