| By Valterreekian on Monday, March 28, 2005 - 09:16 am: Edit |
International News
8.2 earthquake registered off Sumatra
Magnitude is nearly as large as tsunami quake
BREAKING NEWS
MSNBC staff and news service reports
Updated: 12:09 p.m. ET March 28, 2005A large earthquake was registered Monday off Indonesia's Sumatra Island, the U.S. Geological Survey reported, describing it as a "great earthquake" with a magnitude of 8.2 on the Richter scale.
The USGS advised officials in the area to move people inland, and Thai officials were among the first to issue a tsunami warning for the Andaman Sea.
No reports of injury or damage had been received from the region. The Dec. 26 quake that launched the massive tsunami was a 9.0, the USGS said.
Monday's quake epicenter was just off the northern Sumatra coast and between two smaller islands, and located at 18.6 miles underground. It occured at around 11 p.m. local time.
The Dec. 26 quake was also off the coast of Sumatra and just north of Monday's quake.
This report will be updated as information
| By Valterreekian on Monday, March 28, 2005 - 09:34 am: Edit |
UPDATE!!! Evacuation notice from NOAA!
8.2 quake off Sumatra; tsunami warning
NOAA advises evacuation of coasts within 600 miles
BREAKING NEWS
MSNBC staff and news service reports
Updated: 12:25 p.m. ET March 28, 2005A large earthquake was registered Monday off Indonesia's Sumatra Island, the U.S. Geological Survey reported, news that prompted an immediate tsunami warning by another U.S. agency.
The earthquake, with a magnitude of 8.2, "has the potential to generate a widely destructive tsunami in the ocean or seas near the earthquake," the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration warned. It advised "immediate action" including "evacuation of coasts within a thousand kilometers (600 miles) of the epicenter and close monitoring to determine the need for evacuation further away."
Thai officials were among the first to issue a tsunami warning for the Andaman Sea, an area that saw widespread devastation from a tsunami on Dec. 26, caused by a 9.0 earthquake in the region.
No reports of injury or damage had been received from the region.
Monday's quake epicenter was just off the northern Sumatra coast and between two smaller islands, and located 18.6 miles underground. It occurred at around 11 p.m. local time.
The Dec. 26 quake was also off the coast of Sumatra and just north of Monday's quake.
This report will be updated as information
| By Valterreekian on Monday, March 28, 2005 - 10:20 am: Edit |
Okay, they are calling it an aftershock. It was about 60 miles south of the first one, and the experts at NOAA are saying that although it is likely that a Tsunami was generated, they believe it is more of a beam of energy heading SOUTH rather than the pebble effect heading omni-directional likr the first one. NOAA says they recorded it as an 8.5.
| By Valterreekian on Monday, March 28, 2005 - 11:04 am: Edit |
Thai experts now say that there is no Tsunami threat to Thailand. Sumatra reports damage and power/communications lost, but no Tsunami.
Mauritius is the only place that the experts are still concerned about, although the ruler of Sri Lanka have evacuated all costal areas.
If those two areas make it okay, it seems we dodged a bullit 
There is an island off the coast of Sumatra that was seriously damaged by the earthquake itself, and there are reports of significant damage to areas on the Sumatran west coast.
| By Epimetheus on Monday, March 28, 2005 - 11:16 am: Edit |
Guess the dollar will keep getting stronger here...
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| By Priew100 on Monday, March 28, 2005 - 12:07 pm: Edit |
Valterreekian....
Are you still heading to Bangkok/Pattaya in April? Man....I wish I could go with you pal, because we had a BLAST together in Rio!
I will be going back to Rio Jul 15 for two weeks, then head to Thailand-Pattaya for two weeks immediately after Rio.
Question...how in the world can you book a ticket from Chicago..to Rio, then Rio to Bangkok, then Bangkok to Chicago? I'm getting outrageous quotes!
| By Valterreekian on Monday, March 28, 2005 - 11:30 pm: Edit |
Yeh Priew, I am going to be in BKK/Pattaya from the 15th April through the 25th April.
Hey, if you can swing it I will be in Prague from 3 Sept., through 10 Sept. Would love to hang with you again. Will likely be hangin with Bad_MrFrosty and Smirker if he can go. Also, CubaNut said he would try to make it!