Breaking News: Indonesia Warned of Possible Tsunami After 6.6 Magnitude Quake Strikes the Region

FOXNEWS ^ | 09/29/10 | FOX

[Reeses]

Wow! The folks at Quake Prdiction were right! Several thousand miles off, but right!

Close enough for government work! Are some government employees running a website on the side?

[Beowulf9]

Quake prediction is predicting a 6.5 to 7.0 quake in Southern California tomorrow! Whoa. That would be a nightmare, pretty big quake if that were to happen.

[Cyman]

And that story doesn’t reflect the 7.2 that JUST hit.

[socal_parrot]

The state of California says it’s a hoax...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2597473/posts

...Or is it?

[camerongood210]

Epicenter:

[roses of sharon]

The guy doing these predictions did not say anything about the State....he seems to have a hobby predicting earthquakes.

He got one right in April, so he has a few fans now, lol.

[topher]

The USGS has an epicenter South West of New Guinea. This map shows the epicenter North West of New Guinea...

[topher]

The following is a much, much better map, courtesy of USGS:

[topher]

AP has story that this is a 7.4 magnitude earthquake, but hat is from the Indonesian Government.

I will stick with USGS...

Link to AP story on FoxNews.com:

Powerful Earthquake Hits Eastern Indonesia

[Strategerist]

Allah will protect them. Won’t he?

I used to have some hope that people will eventually figure out that Indonesia is 3,000 miles long and has 20 million + Christians.

The closest islands to this Earthquake, the Aru Islands, are, according to wikipedia, "mostly Christian, with a small Muslim minority."

[donozark]

2 separate quakes. 6.6, and one minute later 7.2
Per MSNBC

[UCANSEE2]

This provides a much more ‘informative’ view, and is QUICK, and FREE, and IN 3D.

Download the free program (takes about 2 seconds) then run it.

It is awesome and has a ton of neat controls.

EARTHQUAKE 3D http://www.wolton.net/quake.html

[camerongood210]

That is pretty cool. Thanks for the tip.

[21twelve]

I worked at a mine on the west side (Indonesian) of Papau New Guinea. Another engineer there was designing a wall to keep the haul trucks from falling over the edge of a dumping area.

He designed it to withstand an 7.4 EQ which was a fair possibility of happening. His boss at the mine laughed and said “If we even get a 6.4 here the whole place is toast. Just build it so it won’t fall over if a truck hits it at 20 mph.”

[topher]

USGS has the 7.2 as well.

Map of location of 7.2:

[SunkenCiv]

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[Quix]

Hmmmmm 5.X in LA, 7.9? in Peru and this in Indonesia all in the last 24 hours.

Hmmmmm