Massive tidalwave kills over 7,000 in Southeast Asia

[mad1]

fox

"AKARTA, Indonesia — The world's most powerful earthquake in 40 years triggered massive tidal waves that slammed into villages and seaside resorts across southern and southeast Asia on Sunday, killing more than 7,000 people in six countries.

"Tourists, fishermen, homes and cars were swept away by walls of water up to 20 feet high that swept across the Bay of Bengal (search), unleashed by the 8.9-magnitude earthquake centered off the west coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra (search)."

[franklin1000]

fragile, are we not?

[pphalan]

8.9 thats a monster earth quake.Richter TNT for Seismic Example
Magnitude Energy Yield (approximate)

-1.5 6 ounces Breaking a rock on a lab table
1.0 30 pounds Large Blast at a Construction Site
1.5 320 pounds
2.0 1 ton Large Quarry or Mine Blast
2.5 4.6 tons
3.0 29 tons
3.5 73 tons
4.0 1,000 tons Small Nuclear Weapon
4.5 5,100 tons Average Tornado (total energy)
5.0 32,000 tons
5.5 80,000 tons Little Skull Mtn., NV Quake, 1992
6.0 1 million tons Double Spring Flat, NV Quake, 1994
6.5 5 million tons Northridge, CA Quake, 1994
7.0 32 million tons Hyogo-Ken Nanbu, Japan Quake, 1995; Largest Thermonuclear Weapon
7.5 160 million tons Landers, CA Quake, 1992
8.0 1 billion tons San Francisco, CA Quake, 1906
8.5 5 billion tons Anchorage, AK Quake, 1964
9.0 32 billion tons Chilean Quake, 1960
10.0 1 trillion tons (San-Andreas type fault circling Earth)
12.0 160 trillion tons (Fault Earth in half through center,
OR Earth's daily receipt of solar energy

[OuTpaTienT]

Now I know everyone is very busy discussing important issues that are vital to their very survival, like songs in commecials or colors of xmas or even aftermilk...but this is the biggest earthquake story in over 40 years. You guys might want to wake up and pay attention. Just a suggestion, not a commandment or anything. [shrug]

[brandon184]

Give me a break. I just woke up 20 minutes ago! I was looking through the forum index, thinking, "Tell me there's already a thread on this."

Wild, wild stuff. Apparently there were even quite a few beachgoers who were out and about when it happened.

7,000 dead. That's insanity.

CNN says that it's the fifth largest quake in recorded history.

Brandon

[caddmannq]

They're now reporting over 10,000 dead and millions homeless.

And yes, 8.9 magnitude is about 6,000 times what we experienced in the Northridge quake.

That is truely massive.

[OuTpaTienT]

USGS: Largest Earthquakes in the World since 1900

Dec. 23rd - 8.1 : http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqs...kes/ussjal.htm

Dec. 26th - 8.9: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqs...kes/usslav.htm

Number of Earthquakes w/magnitute 8.0 or greater Per Year:
1969 - 1
1970 - 0
1971 - 1
1972 - 0
1973 - 0
1974 - 0
1975 - 1
1976 - 2
1977 - 2
1978 - 1
1979 - 0
1980 - 1
1981 - 0
1982 - 1
1983 - 0
1984 - 0
1985 - 1
1986 - 1
1987 - 0
1988 - 0
1989 - 1
1990 - 0
1991 - 0
1992 - 0
1993 - 0
1994 - 2
1995 - 2
1996 - 1
1997 - 0
1998 - 1
1999 - 0
2000 - 1
2001 - 1
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Number of quakes 8.0 or greater in the past 3 days: - 2

[Thud]

We recieved a tsunami watch in the weather office when I was in Japan. There was a large quake in the south Pacific, and the watch was for possible resultant tsunamis. Thinking there might be a massive wall of water heading at you (about 1/2 mile from the coast) is a really unnerving feeling!

It's some scary stuff.

[pphalan]

Outpatient I was paying attention to this on the news my monitor is inline with my set.Knew about this story because fox news posts to my email.Is there anything you or me can do to help those people right now besides prayer that you dont believe in?

[pphalan]

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