7.3 mag Earthquake - Tsunami warning issued, page 1

7.3 mag Earthquake - Tsunami warning issued

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more quakes...7.3 this time, for some reason E-quake has not showed anything. sky news are reporting that the quake was in the maluka area and a tsunami warning has been issued!/.

eyes glued for news!

i am hoping this is nothing to bad, but the area they mentioned seems to be all islands.. i hope noone is in for a wet evening.


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EDIT - just as i posted this equake showed the quake - its reporting it as a 7.0 in the banda sea... a quick google search shows a small area, that sea is nearly completly surrounded in islands! eek

earthquake.usgs.gov...

[edit on 24-10-2009 by boaby_phet]

reply to post by boaby_phet

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I hope this turns out to be nothing to worry about for those that live close by.

Thanks

reply to post by Chonx

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i too hope their is no tsunami ... it quake wasnt to far from land so it shouldnt be long till we know!..

i hope phage does point out something else people are missing ive learned so much from his points in various topics! without the discussion noone learns anything!

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BBCnews24 is saying that the Tsunami warning has been lifted now so it loks like another potential disaster has been averted. good news!

Strong quake hits eastern Indonesia, causes panic

A powerful earthquake struck deep under the sea in eastern Indonesia on Saturday, causing panic and sending residents running out of their homes, officials and witnesses said. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.

The quake had a preliminary magnitude of 7.0, but at a depth of 86 miles (138 kilometers) was too far below the earth's surface to cause a tsunami, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said.

Saturday's quake came as Indonesia is still recovering from a devastating earthquake last month that killed more than 1,000 people on western Sumatra.

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reply to post by Copernicus

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the best thing i can reccomend to put your mind at rest is the firefox plugin Equake... a few weeks ago when their was that spate of quakes near the ring of fire and alot of people chatting about it, i installed the plug in ...and scince then ive stopped thinking that it might be something... as theirs just so much quakes all the time!

as of right now the ticker on BBC News says as follows.

LATEST: Indonesia lifts Tsunami warning alert after magnitude 7.0 earthquake

news.bbc.co.uk...

This won't be devastating for sure, thanks God.
I just would like to point out that the differences in the reports from scientists/sources regarding the magnitude in these cases (one claiming 7.0, another one 7.3 etc) aren't necessarly determined by some state of confusion:
Basically, there are two scales:
the Moment Magnituted Scale, Known as MMS (Mw) is used to determine the size of a shock intended as energy released:
this can be achieved by doing some calculations involving (Rigidity of Earth) and [(amount of slip on the fault) + (size of the area involved in the shock)]: the last two ones, would work as multipliers.
I know, it's some inaccurate explanation, but that is the best i can do on some post on a board : USGS uses this one, anyway. It's often called "Richter" but actually, is NOT.
The Richtermagnitude scale, known as Local Magnitude Scale, it's older, and is based on the assignement of a number to the amount of seismic energy, so the basic is the same, what's different is the process: you have to obtain a |Scale-10 logarithm | scale, using data collected by this or somthing based on it anyway. And NOT, don't think that between a 7.0 and a 6.0 shock there's a difference of 1/10th in strenght: it doesn't work that way.


Table comparing magnitudes towards the upper end of the Richter Scale for major Californian earthquakes.

The approximate TNT for seismic energy yield in this case was around 50 megatons, and given the depht i'd say that not even damages will be reported. I could be wrong but not very much, we'll see, anyway.
Ah : what makes you think that the seismic activity in the area is out of the ordinary, may i ask? It's a question i'm posing after looking at the data and everything seems to be ordinary, in my humble opinion.



[edit on 24/10/2009 by internos]

reply to post by slyce

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7.0 earthquake will only make the news when the CIA wants it to. We don't have any real news anymore, I mean news for the information of the people wanting to know about anything. We only have news for propaganda.

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