No link as of yet.

Pray for those people, another tsunami would be absolutely awful...

Quake Link

That is a big quake. Hope the people over there are okay.

This is the bulletin that went out to the Pacific rim

 

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

The quake has been upgraded to 8.7 on the richter scale and they are now reporting 300 deaths

 

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/03/2...uake/index.html

An Idoneisian politician is saying that as many as 2000 could be dead. There are no reports of tsunami yet.

 

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...=1530&ncid=2337

8.7 off that coast of an island??!! It's surprising there haven't been tsunamis......yet.

I wonder if their tourism will take a long term hit with the frequency of these quakes around that region??

Edited March 29, 200521 yr by LosMediasBlancas

8.7 off that coast of an island??!! It's surprising there haven't been tsunamis......yet.

I wonder if their tourism will take a long term hit with the frequency of these quakes around that region??

 

It depends on the kind of slippage on the fault. If it was a sliding movement along the fault, there will not be much of a tidal wave. If one side of the fault line falls down, then the water will rush in to fill the vacant area, and then the tsunami will result. In the original quake there was a 60 foot fall along the plate, which resulted in the tidal wave.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7316846/

Do you think people are a little burned out about seeing this in the news?.....unfortunately.