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philanthropist
Joined: 14 Nov 2004
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Location: Austria
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 Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2004 2:41 am Post subject: Massive earthquake in the Indian Ocean |
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Hello everybody!
You have certainly heard about the terrible 9.0 earthquake:
The number of dead has already soared into the thousands in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and India. Thailand was also badly hit, and the waves killed people in Malaysia, Maldives and Bangladesh.
In the news they have just said that there were almost 60 smaller aftershocks today.
Are there any of you who are possibly directly concerned???
In Austrian TV, they said that loads of tourists are in this area at this time of the year.
The Austrian treasury secretary is on holiday in Thailand with his fianc�e at the moment, for example.
What have you heard about this catastrophe so far? |
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Diana
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2004 4:13 pm Post subject: |
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The 9.0 earthquake has caused a tsunami. According to my newspaper here in the Pacific, the death toll are now over 23,000 people dead.  |
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Dreamcatcher
Joined: 27 Oct 2004
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| Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2004 10:56 pm Post subject: |
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Affected reasons of earthquakes are explosions of bombs over and under surface of our Earth. Who has fallen bombs in Asia, Afganistan, Iraq for last 40 years?
One more reason is the world warming. Who left the Kioto protocol some years ago and made risky to accept it? |
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Diana
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| Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 4:33 am Post subject: |
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| Dreamcatcher wrote: |
Affected reasons of earthquakes are explosions of bombs over and under surface of our Earth. Who has fallen bombs in Asia, Afganistan, Iraq for last 40 years?
One more reason is the world warming. Who left the Kioto protocol some years ago and made risky to accept it? |
YEAH RIGHT!!!  You actually think the US is going to bomb the ocean and cause a 9.0 earthquake only to spend 15 million dollars to help those countries!!
Earthquakes are caused by plate tectonics! Get an education!! |
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asterix
Joined: 26 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 6:14 am Post subject: |
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It's snowing here in Canada and it's -35 C. When is this global warming supposed to start? The quicker the better, as far as I'm concerned.
OR MAYBE IT"S THE AMERICANS AGAIN!!!!!
Or General Motors,
Or General Electric
Or Donald Rumsfeld.
Please note, for those of you who are paranoid... I'm being sarcastic. |
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philanthropist
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| Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 10:35 am Post subject: |
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| asterix wrote: |
It's snowing here in Canada and it's -35 C. When is this global warming supposed to start? The quicker the better, as far as I'm concerned.
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Please note, for those of you who are paranoid... I'm being sarcastic. |
Hi asterix!!!
I know that's not part of the topic, but you can't imagine how I envy you!
We, here in Austria, are desperately waiting for snow and it's incredibly warm for winter (O�C).
A really cold winter is something wonderful, I think.
From which area of Canada are you?
I'd really love to be in Canada, I'm a Canada fan, although I've never been there...
Well, I wouldn't make jokes about the global warming (I know it was meant sarcastic, but ...), maybe our generation will experience even worse things than a 9.0 earthquake.... |
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Dreamcatcher
Joined: 27 Oct 2004
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| Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 8:27 pm Post subject: |
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[quote="Diana"][quote="Dreamcatcher"]
Earthquakes are caused by plate tectonics! Get an education!![/quote]
What cause plate tectonics, an ignorant girl???? Go and read a little bit and then talk. Explosions, oil fires rise risk much of earth movements. Take a scientistic book and magazines and read why it happens and what depends on. And don`t forget kiss the Bush`s ass before going into the bad, as usual. Or he would forget send you some ignorance for New Year.
That`s funny USA fell two nuclear bombs on Japan. And the earth said "Thank you !!!!". "I fell nothing, I would react nothing". Thousands heavy bombs in Vietnam, Korea, Iraq and.....
Continued nuclear tests in Alaska. Explosions over and under the earth. And the earth felt nothing, the bushy girl????
Get an education is a good advise!!! Or better stop doing "that" before the sleep. |
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Dreamcatcher
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| Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 9:06 pm Post subject: |
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[quote="asterix"]It's snowing here in Canada and it's -35 C. When is this global warming supposed to start? The quicker the better, as far as I'm concerned.
OR MAYBE IT"S THE AMERICANS AGAIN!!!!!
Or General Motors,
Or General Electric
Or Donald Rumsfeld.
Please note, for those of you who are paranoid... I'm being sarcastic.[/quote]
Asterix, I just smile about that banana girl. She cried about people whose deads were inevitable. GOD took them.
And she felt nothing when people died in stupid wars.
Especially for you, the global warming has been going. For last century the average temperature on the land rise for some degrees. Or you think it will happent for 10 years. When you had the temperature about zero you would have been under the water. Because by that moment all Antarctica would thaw.
And for you again, the level of ocean has increased for last centure much. I`m sure you noticed how many natural cataclysms we have had for last years.
Of course, if USA (USSR in the past) didn`t do all the mentioned above stuff, this tragedy would happen anyway. BUT. It would be more predictable, weaker. We should not touch the earth, it stars behaving unexpacting.
I don`t blaim USA in this tradgedy at all. I just want people to remember about others in wars, eathquakers, repressions, racism and so on. And don`t mention only when they want. Like Bush. and banana... ha-ha...
Banana for breakfast, banana for lunch.... Lady, what do you eat for dinner? Let me guess, it must be bananas!!!
I`ve found a problem!! Bananas are in the ears too. |
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asterix
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| Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 11:33 am Post subject: |
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I noticed in the past that earthquakes sometimes happened not long after nuclear tests. I dont think anyone has made a scientific connection between the two, but it seemed suspicious.
At any rate the latest nuclear tests have been made by Pakistan and India, I believe (and maybe France slipped one in there too). These places are suspiciously close to the site of the earthquake that started the tsunami. |
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element105
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| Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 2:41 am Post subject: |
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Anyone should be aware of the revenge of the nature  |
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yingfang1101
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| Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2005 9:37 pm Post subject: It's terrible |
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The earthquake casued the tsunami disaster. It's really terrible.
Many victims can't find their family and friends.
Many seaside resorts were destroyed.
It shocked all over the world after the tsunami happened.
I am sad. I will cherish all I have right now.  |
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Bob S.
Joined: 29 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 4:41 pm Post subject: Tectonic motion |
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| asterix wrote: |
| I noticed in the past that earthquakes sometimes happened not long after nuclear tests. I dont think anyone has made a scientific connection between the two, but it seemed suspicious.. |
No no no. Don't even go there. A little knowledge and a lot of bias makes for a dangerous combination. Nuclear detonations are miniscule pops compared to the energies released by natural forces and cannot trigger tectonic activity. The energy released by this latest slip along a 600-mile long subduction zone was greater than the firepower of all countries' combined nuclear weapons. 2 of the 5 most powerful earthquakes in the last 100 years occured in Alaska, far from any nuclear testing grounds.
If you want to blame something, blame the super-continent Pangaea for starting to break up 200 million years ago and is still pulling apart. Or blame the planetoid that collided with the Earth 4 billion years ago, stripping the Earth of 75% of its silicate crust (that eventually coalesced into our moon) and permitted the formation of continental plates and their motion.
For further reading, see http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/dynamic.html#anchor19978839, specifically the section Plate tectonics and people. It looks horrible in the short term, but in the big picture (as in geologic time scale), this kind of activity is very necessary for our collective survival. |
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Dreamcatcher
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| Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 11:23 pm Post subject: |
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There are three kinds of earthquakes. And one of them can be caused by activity of people (nuclear test, bombings, oil and gas extraction and so on).
I just wonder why people think that if someone make a great shi**, nobody will notice it. Or even some people finds something good in this.
Bob S., are you sure Alaska hasn`t felt any nuclear tests?
Although, earthquakes there have been mostly caused by collisions of two plates. |
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Bob S.
Joined: 29 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 12:13 pm Post subject: Atomic Earthquakes? |
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| Dreamcatcher wrote: |
| Bob S., are you sure Alaska hasn`t felt any nuclear tests? |
Here's the complete list from Trinity in 1945 to the Pakistani tests in 1998.
http://www.okgeosurvey1.gov/level2/nuke.cat.index.html
Plenty in Nevada, New Mexico, Siberia and Russian steppes, South Pacific, PRC, and so on. Three in Alaska: 1965, 69, & 71. The two big earthquakes in Alaska were in 1957 (9.1) and 1964 (9.2) before any atomic tests.
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| Although, earthquakes there have been mostly caused by collisions of two plates. |
Right. The Pacific plate is subducting under the North American plate along the Aleutian trench. It's the same kind of action that generated this latest earthquake.
BTW, here's a couple links to show the wave propagation.
http://wcatwc.gov/IndianOSite/IndianO12-26-04.htm
http://www.okgeosurvey1.gov/home.html |
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