As I am sure most of you know....

[Feedman]

...about the Tidal wave that struck overseas.....it was casued my a massive earthquake....9.0 to be exact....killing clost to 25,000 from the latest estimates.....


This was reported on a local news station in wake of the recent tradegy....

Local news just said some island got moved over by 100 ft and that the Earth actually "wobbled" hard enough about it's axis that December 26 got shorter by some measurable fraction of a second!


Believable??....Are we heading into a collision course with the sun..... 8)

[Davis Silver Sti]

Truly a sad time. I've been watching it on TV for awhile now.
Latest estimates are over 44,000 dead. Ugh...

Thailand is a country of extreme beauty and contrasts. I travelled to Thailand and India in 1997 and had a amazing experience. You seen incredible beauty and also people that have nothing. (worse than poor..."nothing")

Indonesia has had bad political problems and is a rather poor over-populated country...now they get hit with this terrbile natural disaster.

This disaster (disaster is such an understatement) will only set these countries back even further. Despite all the international aid coing in, its still going to be a struggle for these developing nations.

[xjoewhitex]

yea i was watching the news last night about this on like 3 different channels.. and it's completely crazy i think, how could you prepair for something like that... seems like in the videos that they were playin that everyone was just having their time on the beach and this big wave along with another crashed the beach and rolled into town flooding....killing everyone that was caught in the current

truly sad :(

[Davis Silver Sti]

Some very frightening vids:

http://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/2004/12/28/418730.html

right click save as.. on the blue hyperlinks below the main images. They are vid files.

Damn!

[ShortysTRM]

left click save as

right click... :wink:

[narfdanarf]

i hear latest estimates are at 60,000 :?

[xjoewhitex]

just some other info i just heard from the news... that the earthquake knocked the earth a couple seconds ahead on its rotation... so that can only tell how powerful it was...

[narfdanarf]

actually adam already said that... :P

[blackek]

the death toll is up to like 53,000 i think know

[RobbieNelson]

just some other info i just heard from the news... that the earthquake knocked the earth a couple seconds ahead on its rotation... so that can only tell how powerful it was...

Anyone have credible evidence of this from a reliable source?

[xjoewhitex]

actually adam already said that... :P woops.. i guess i missed that part :?

[xjoewhitex]

just some other info i just heard from the news... that the earthquake knocked the earth a couple seconds ahead on its rotation... so that can only tell how powerful it was...

Anyone have credible evidence of this from a reliable source?

“That earthquake has changed the map,” Ken Hudnut, of the US Geological Survey (USGS), said. “Based on seismic modelling, some of the smaller islands off the southwest coast of Sumatra may have moved to the southwest by about 20 metres. That is a lot of slip.”

The northwestern tip of Sumatra may also have shifted to the southwest by about 36 metres (120ft), he said.

In addition, the energy released as the two sides of the undersea fault slipped against each other probably made the Earth wobble on its axis. “We can detect very slight motions of the Earth and I would expect that the Earth wobbled when the earthquake occurred due to the massive amount of energy exerted and the sudden shift in mass,” he said. Timesonline

thats all i can find on the internet... But ive been hearing it on all the news channels

[kak]

Key word: Probably

I'll wait until a scientist explains it in full detail, not someone who has their scripts written for them.

Very tragic though. Ashame to see something catastrophic like this happen at any point in time, even moreso during the holidays.

[Davis Silver Sti]

The huge earthquake that rocked Chile some yrs ago (8.5 or 9.0?), changed time...but it was only .008 of a second.

[ShortysTRM]

Yeah, I have heard that it was a fraction of a second, but that doesn't make it any less amazing. Though the huge loss of lives makes this a very tragic event, it is also the largest event like this we will probably ever see. The figures that Davis quoted about how far the plates moved are insane. Most of the tectonic plates move at approximately 2 cm per year. Some of these areas moved 100-120 feet in a matter of seconds/minutes. Anyone know if this was at a transform or convergent fault?