Community | April 07, 2010 | 9 comments

7.7-magnitude quake strikes Indonesia

source: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/04/06/indonesia.earthquake/index.html?hpt=T2

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A 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia early Wednesday, triggering two tsunamis and injuring several people, officials said.

Six people on Simeulue island were injured when the quake hit, and two houses collapsed under the violent shaking, said Dadik, the head of Simeulue police, who goes by only one name.

The island is just off the coast of Banda Aceh, a city at the northern tip of Indonesia's Sumatra island where residents lost power after the temblor.

Link: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/04/06/indonesia.earthquake/index.html?hpt=...
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9 comments // 7.7-magnitude quake strikes Indonesia

  • Monkey_Films
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      Monkey_Films  

    • Planetary alignment is causing a greater pull to one side of the Earth. This could cause a pole shift. We do not want that, but, evolutionary speaking, a few survive and we rebuild, no need to worry about something one cannot stop.

    • 2 years ago
  • Kurta
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      Kurta  

    • Part of the reason it seems as if there are an increasing number of quakes is the coverage. The media really loves working a theme, especially with 2012 looming. I don't feel the frequency is unusual at all. I still have my old geology text books and they mostly concur with the current USGS statistics. I recently read an interesting theory that correlates moon tidal forces at perigee with tectonic movement. It's seems rational if you consider the deformations of Jupiter's moons.

    • 2 years ago
  • Animal_Chin
  • onemalefla
  • Kurta
  • keithponder
  • tommic
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      tommic  

    • There's something happening here what it is ain't exactly clear but in my life of fifty three years I have never seen or heard of this many major earthquakes within such a short period of time all over the world. The plates are moving and they are moving more now than ever before and quicker otherwise this wouldn't be happening this way. US Geological Survey isn't going to throw out alarms they don't have to, the earth is. I would not want to be living in California right now a massive quake has not happened there in a few decades and I fear the worst. A major quake in San Fran or L.A. could cause 300 to 500 billion in damage very easily.

    • 2 years ago
  • Saladin
  • diode
    • +1
      diode  

    • i'm waiting on the tsunami stories to start rolling in. and right next to the java trench...that could be a doozy of a wave

    • 2 years ago
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