ezekiel Posted December 27, 2004 Share Posted December 27, 2004 The Tsunami's haven't reached Taiwan so I'm quite all right...considering I'm about 10 kilometers inland and on the 3 floor it would've been quite something if I wasn't alright...But then, I guess it was quite something ::unsure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix Posted December 27, 2004 Share Posted December 27, 2004 ::crazy Glad to hear it, man... Things sound pretty insane in that hemisphere, to hear the Times tell it, anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayre el KaBeer Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 One final kick in the teeth from the year suckiness, 2004 I spit on thee. ::angry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProfPotts Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 Good to hear you're alright ezekiel - & thanks for letting us all know. I know it shouldn't make a difference to us if these sorts of disasters include people we know or not - bad is bad no matter what - but it does, & even small comforts are something in the wake of such tragedy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grizzly Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 Good to hear that you are ok. ::thumbsup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ConcreteDragon Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 CNN 12-28-2004: Scientists describe Sunday's devastating earthquake off the island of Sumatra as a "megathrust" -- a grade reserved for the most powerful shifts in the Earth's crust.Seismologists said the epicenter of Sunday's quake was more than 5.5 miles below the Indian Ocean off the west coast of Sumatra and about 150 miles south of the city of Bandah Aceh on the island's northern tip.geologist Kerry Sieh of the California Institute of Technology. "Sunday was one of the biggest earthquakes in the region in the past 200 years."How powerful? By some estimates, it was equal to detonating a million atomic bombs.Sieh and other scientists said it probably jolted the planet's rotation. "It causes the planet to wobble a little bit, but it's not going to turn Earth upside down," Sieh said.By Monday, according to the International Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii, some energy from Sunday's waves sifted into the Pacific Basin.At Manzanillo, Mexico, waves rose more than eight feet. Minor fluctuations were reported in New Zealand and Chile, where waves rose between one and two feet. In the United States, Hawaii reported almost no wave changes, while San Diego saw waves rise less than a foot.But rogue waves can rise in any ocean, and Sunday's disaster renewed attention on the vulnerability of major coastal cities like New York City.In 1999, scientists at University College London reported that if a volcano in the Canary Islands erupted with sufficient force, it could cause a massive landslide on the island of La Palma and trigger tsunami waves in the Atlantic Ocean.They speculated such a landslide would generate a "mega-tsunami" that would inundate the east coast of the United States and the Caribbean with a wall of water more than 164 feet high.or mabey a terrorist Nuke? Or a Nova attack?p.s. I'm glad your ok, 'Zeke. Our local radio had innitialy said that the Tsunami had hit Taiwan, turns out they ment Tailand ::rolleyes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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