Tsunami Earthquake was a 7.7!

[benburch]

DATE                         LAT     LON  MAG  DEPTH        REGION
17-JUL-2006 11:07:37 -9.49 107.73 5.9 40.7 SOUTH OF JAWA, INDONESIA
17-JUL-2006 10:44:37 -9.04 107.78 5.4 40.4 SOUTH OF JAWA, INDONESIA
17-JUL-2006 10:09:08 -8.86 107.80 6.0 20.0 JAWA, INDONESIA
17-JUL-2006 09:13:10 -9.13 107.65 6.1 46.6 SOUTH OF JAWA, INDONESIA
17-JUL-2006 09:05:17 -9.80 107.96 5.7 10.0 SOUTH OF JAWA, INDONESIA
17-JUL-2006 08:19:25 -9.33 107.26 7.7 10.0 SOUTH OF JAWA, INDONESIA
17-JUL-2006 05:32:28 -4.91 102.13 5.3 20.7 SOUTHERN SUMATERA, INDONESIA

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. that's a whole lot of big ones

everything else seems eerily quiet.

http://www.iris.edu/seismon/

[benburch]

2. I've noticed that effect too...

A really big one seems only to be followed by its own aftershocks and the rest of the earth stays quiet.

Not sure if it is my selective memory, though, or some real effect.

[theHandpuppet]

3. Wow -- they were reporting a 7.2 earlier this morning

You know what really scares me -- if you go to the IRIS monitoring site take a look at the number of earthquakes (and magnitutde of earthquakes) along the Pacific "Ring of Fire" over the past year or 5 years. There's only one stretch that is eerily "quiet" -- and that's along the N. American coastline (excluding Alaska). In this case I don't think this extended period of non-activity is good news.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

4. It isn't just the past five years.

That part (Pacific northwest coast) is generally known to move via infrequent and really big earthquakes.

[theHandpuppet]

5. Yep.

And that's what worries me. I think we're due for a big one.

[anarch]

6. yeah...and it's pretty much 100% certain that there will be a big one

eventually. That's just what the earth does.

[benburch]

7. A 6.3 Aftershock one hour ago now. nt

[Viva_La_Revolution]

8. update

DATE LAT LON MAG DEPTH km REGION
17-JUL-2006 19:49:32 -9.11 107.84 5.4 10.0 SOUTH OF JAWA, INDONESIA
17-JUL-2006 19:09:31 -9.18 107.82 5.1 10.0 SOUTH OF JAWA, INDONESIA
17-JUL-2006 16:38:38 -9.46 107.63 5.4 10.0 SOUTH OF JAWA, INDONESIA
17-JUL-2006 16:09:52 -9.39 108.83 5.8 10.0 SOUTH OF JAWA, INDONESIA
17-JUL-2006 15:45:57 -9.45 108.27 6.3 10.0 SOUTH OF JAWA, INDONESIA
17-JUL-2006 15:42:02 -9.54 107.72 5.5 10.0 SOUTH OF JAWA, INDONESIA
17-JUL-2006 14:50:55 -9.20 106.99 5.2 10.0 SOUTH OF JAWA, INDONESIA
17-JUL-2006 13:53:48 -9.57 108.04 5.1 10.0 SOUTH OF JAWA, INDONESIA
17-JUL-2006 13:39:23 -9.98 107.89 4.9 10.0 SOUTH OF JAWA, INDONESIA
17-JUL-2006 12:52:10 -9.08 107.80 5.4 10.0 SOUTH OF JAWA, INDONESIA
17-JUL-2006 11:07:37 -9.49 107.73 5.9 40.7 SOUTH OF JAWA, INDONESIA
17-JUL-2006 10:44:37 -9.04 107.78 5.4 40.4 SOUTH OF JAWA, INDONESIA
17-JUL-2006 10:09:08 -8.86 107.80 6.0 20.0 JAWA, INDONESIA
17-JUL-2006 09:13:10 -9.13 107.65 6.1 46.6 SOUTH OF JAWA, INDONESIA
17-JUL-2006 09:05:17 -9.80 107.96 5.7 10.0 SOUTH OF JAWA, INDONESIA
17-JUL-2006 08:19:25 -9.33 107.26 7.7 10.0 SOUTH OF JAWA, INDONESIA
17-JUL-2006 05:32:28 -4.91 102.13 5.3 20.7 SOUTHERN SUMATERA, INDONESIA

[DanCa]

9. How very Jor-El of you Ben :D

Now can we alert the powers that be before Earth explodes like Krypton?
I hate what the chimp has done and is doing to our planet.

[npincus]

10. but I don't get how a 6-Foot high tsunami could have killed dozens???

6-feet high? That's a killer-tsunami?

Call me a dumbass, but I don't understand that.

:shrug:

[Clark2008]

11. Because it keeps coming in at 6 feet, constantly.

It isn't like one six-foot wave and that's it - it's a miles-long wave at 6-feet.