Magnitude 7.8 - NORTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA

[bananas]

Source: USGS

Magnitude 7.8 - NORTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA
2010 April 06 22:15:02 UTC

Earthquake Details
Magnitude 7.8
Date-Time

* Tuesday, April 06, 2010 at 22:15:02 UTC
* Wednesday, April 07, 2010 at 05:15:02 AM at epicenter
* Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location 2.236°N, 97.046°E
Depth 46 km (28.6 miles)
Region NORTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA
Distances 205 km (125 miles) WNW of Sibolga, Sumatra, Indonesia
230 km (145 miles) SW of Medan, Sumatra, Indonesia
525 km (325 miles) W of KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia
1425 km (880 miles) NW of JAKARTA, Java, Indonesia
Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 7.4 km (4.6 miles); depth +/- 11.6 km (7.2 miles)
Parameters NST= 58, Nph= 63, Dmin=330.6 km, Rmss=0.81 sec, Gp= 58°,
M-type=teleseismic moment magnitude (Mw), Version=6
Source

* USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)

Event ID us2010utc5





Read more: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2010utc5.php

[Haole Girl]

1. Holy $hit!

:wow:

[NYC_SKP]

2. Will this one generate a tsunami?

Hope not.

Holding good thoughts for all in the region.

:grouphug:

[bananas]

4. info will be at Pacific Tsunami Center

http://www.prh.noaa.gov/pr/ptwc/

[nyy1998]

16. I hope not, those regions have barely recovered from the last one.

[sam sarrha]

21. Toba Volcano is a couple hundred miles from there,,, >>Link>>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory
The Toba supereruption (Young Toba Tuff or simply YTT<1>) occurred between 69,000 and 77,000 years ago at Lake Toba (Sumatra, Indonesia), and it is recognized as one of Earth's largest known eruptions. The related catastrophe theory holds that this supervolcanic event plunged the planet into a 6 to 10 year volcanic winter, which resulted in the world's human population being reduced to 10,000 or even a mere 1,000 breeding pairs, creating a bottleneck in human evolution. Some researchers argue that the Toba eruption produced not only a catastrophic volcanic winter but also an additional 1,000 year cooling episode

http://www.andaman.org/BOOK/originals/Weber-Toba/ch1_intro/text1.htm
When Toba volcano in western Sumatra erupted 73,000 +/- 4000 years ago it was (and still is) the largest volcanic cataclysm to have taken place on planet earth for the last 28 million years.

[IndianaGreen]

3. Looks like the entire Pacific basin is unstable

This is a very significant event!

[cutlassmama]

7. wonder what that means for the world?

[WheelWalker]

14. I think the planet will recover just fine no matter how it shakes. People,

on the other hand.....

[4lbs]

5. Wow, that's 4 times the power of the one we Southern Californians just had.

President Obama is slated to visit Indonesia (near Sumatra) in the next few months.

[bananas]

6. Reuters: Magnitude 7.8 quake shakes Indonesia - USGS

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN0624770620100406

Magnitude 7.8 quake shakes Indonesia - USGS
Tue Apr 6, 2010 6:37pm EDT

WASHINGTON, April 6 (Reuters) - A major earthquake of magnitude 7.8 shook the Indonesian island of Sumatra, the U.S. Geological Survey said on Tuesday.

A local tsunami watch was in effect for Indonesia, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said.

The quake was centered 127 miles (204 km) west-northwest of Sibolga, Indonesia, and was at a depth of 28.6 miles (46 km), the USGS said.

It initially reported the quake's magnitude at 7.6. (Reporting by World Desk Americas))

[Bette Noir]

8. Damage? Injuries?

[Jamastiene]

9. Mercy.

[Craftsman]

10. Surfs up?

[Renew Deal]

11. 12/21/12

:hi:

[MzShellG]

18. Bingo

Seriously

[nebenaube]

28. post glacial rebound...

oil rigs and islands will sink with the sea floors... due to earthquakes and weight redistribution; coastal flooding will be sudden... volcanoes will erupt, temps will keep climbing, methane releases, increased lightning, bad scenarios will only get worse.

[Odin2005]

12. Holy Christ Almighty!

[WheelWalker]

13. This rash of 7+ tremors is making my Cascadia subduction zone itch

[XemaSab]

17. Sha-ZAM!

:D

[MineralMan]

19. A little Preparation-H will clear that right up.

[caseymoz]

25. Preparation-H-Bomb? nt

[kestrel91316]

22. You hush!!! Don't even think of that place, let alone speak of it.

[thewiseguy]

15. I do not think this will do much damage

Its pretty far from any major population areas.

And the Tsunami would not be all that huge.

[nickinSTL]

20. there were a couple of tsunamis that didn't add up to much

apparently:

The tsunamis, in Banyak Island and Teluk Dalam, were small and not dangerous, measuring just under a foot high, said Fauzi, chief of the Indonesian Meteorological and Geophysics Agency. <\div>

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/04/06/indonesia.earthquake/index.html

[Yavin4]

23. First Haiti, Then Chile, Then Mexico

Now this one. Wow. Is there a pattern here?

[itsrobert]

24. Yes, all countries end in a vowel

I, E, O, A.

Look for the next Earthquake to strike a country ending in U or Y.

I predict Turkey.

[JDPriestly]

27. How about Paraguay or Uruguay?

[caseymoz]

26. We've never had this wide a view of the world before.

Plus, you don't know if we were in lull over the 3,000 years of recorded history, or in the 20th century. We also never had this large of a human population.