Indonesia's Java Rocked by Three Earthquakes, One Magnitude 6.5

[theHandpuppet]

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000080&sid=aVkMYQk5Hs.8&refer=asia

Indonesia's Java Rocked by Three Earthquakes, One Magnitude 6.5

April 15 (Bloomberg) -- Three earthquakes, one measuring up to magnitude-6.5, shook Indonesia's Java island today, seismologists said. No casualties or damage were reported.


A tremor of between magnitude-6 to 6.5 occurred at 11:17 a.m. local time, Yusuf, an official at the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency, said. The epicenter was in the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra, the country's two most populated islands, he said.

(snipping)

Yesterday, an official at the country's Volcanology Agency said the country is monitoring 11 of the nation's 129 active volcanoes because of increased probability of a major eruption following a series of powerful earthquakes.

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[redqueen]

1. Oh please let this not all be leading up to something else.

*prays*

[redqueen]

2. Oh, Lord... it looks even worse today...

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/Maps/region/Australia.html

[QuettaKid]

3. something like this perhaps.....

http://zyx.org/TOBA.html

[redqueen]

4. That's exactly what I was thinking.

It looks like all this is happening south of Toba, but near Anak Krakatau.

:scared:

[Warpy]

6. It's on a different fault line, one that parallels the southwest Sumatra

coastline. There's another fault that runs the length of Sumatra in the interior, and if this one becomes active (and it's predicted to), it could possibly trigger an eruption of Toba or a new, similar supervolcano.

Let's just hope it doesn't happen.

I don't fancy spending days and nights shoveling ash off my roof so it doesn't collapse.

[redqueen]

9. I hate to even imagine what that'd be like.

That reminds me... I watched that AWFUL Supervolcano thing on TV finally, and IIRC, Jennings said the one under Yellowstone was the largest in the world. I thought Toba was... now I have to go check.

[Warpy]

10. Toba's bigger

but Yellowstone is close.

There's another one about an hour northwest of me, the Valle Grande supervolcano in NM. It's been dormant for over a million years, but the evidence of its last eruption is all over the place in ash layers over twenty feet thick (which were easily twice that when they fell).

I don't want that sucker to wake up, either.

[SpiralHawk]

16. Valle Grande has just been "sleeping"

according to the elders in Jemez, Santa Clara, and San Juan Pueblos. They note with regret, that Los Alamos National Labs, where they fart around with nuclear fire and pollute the land and water, is built onto the flank of the volcano, and has encircled (with barbed wire) the sacred place, Avanyu.

Bad ju ju all around.

[newyawker99]

18. Hi QuettaKid!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Catchawave]

5. What is going on out there?

[pfitz59]

7. God hates Muslims!

And poor brown people! Fred Phelps told me so!

[theHandpuppet]

8. Here's a great site to bookmark for updates

http://www.iris.edu/seismon/

[Neverarepublican]

11. So if either of these two volcanos blow (Toba or Yellowstone) what

is the potential loss of life? How far will the devastation go? Does
anyone have these probabilities?

[HeeBGBz]

12. When Toba last erupted

It nearly wiped out the human race. (Such as it was back then)

[DearAbby]

13. Toba being near the Equator is a factor

I have read accounts that the population was decimated to purhaps as many as 10,000 humans surviving.

That ash from the eruption was as much as 18 to 25 feet in thickness, and the explosion high into the atmosphere caused a 1,000 yr ice age, following the last eruption.

[Boomer]

15. Two issues to worry about

The first issue is the immediate devastation caused by pyroclastic flow and ash fall. In the case of Yellowstone, previous ash fall spread as far as Texas and California.

But the most serious worldwide effect is from the cooling effect, a year long winter (or more) due to suspended particles that block the sun. The loss of crops leads to widespread famine.

[DoYouEverWonder]

14. Jeez, Indonesia has been really sliding around

Indonesians chat as volcanic clouds spew from the crater of Mount Talang, West Sumatra, which has forced 20,000 people from their homes.

[Baclava]

17. So god IS killing the non-believers...I knew it!

Nice place to visit...but....