Massive 8.5 Earthquake Hits Indonesia
 

Whoa, 8.5, that's one of the biggest I've ever heard in my lifetime.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqinthenews/2004/usslav/

Often that means a reciprocal quake ahead for the eastern side of the Pacific Plate on the US west coast.

Shit, that is a big one

Holy shit. That is not good at all.
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i ht 9.0 once few yrs ago when I was banging this chick. I hadnt had sex in awhile and it was building up. When i erupted the whole room shook.

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh Merry XXXMas Juciy :)

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you coming to Vegas? Crazy http://gofuckyourself.com/images/smi...smiley-083.gif gonna be going on

LOL, almost spit out my JD reading that.

If you know of any hot Indonesian chicks need someplace to stay in these trying times let them know they have a warm bed at Wolf's house. :tongue:

8 more quakes over 2 hours in the 6 range.

HOLY SHIT! THERE ARE GFYers OVER THERE!

I know there are at least a couple of well-known ones who live in Thailand...

I hope they're all right. :eyecrazy

Damn that sucks. I hope everyone os OK and that those effected where prepared for it.

Damn I remember a big one, like that back in 94 that hit NY

Huge 30 foot tidal waves are innundating fishing villages. Over 160 people reported washed out to sea and drowned..

That's one big ass earthquake. Biggest in about 40 years they say. Just had another 8.5 a few days ago near Tasmania.

Indonesia is the largest muslim country on Earth I think.

I can see a secret Earthquake Machine tunneling underground causing these things with George W. at the wheel.

Seriously, the tsunamis from a quake that big could be scary. Two huge quakes like that in a week means we're lucky in the states as that relieves pressure on the plates that we normally get.

Let's hope for the best for folks over there.

400 people dead now. 100,000 people displaced from their homes by the water and presumed washed into the ocean.

A few moments after the first earthquake, a second shook Banglidesh and one of these quakes sent a tidal wave 1400 km to Sri Lanka.

Fucked up shit....Mother nature is pissed off at us

Wow, the USGS just raised it to an 8.9 on the richter scale.

:sadcrying

http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/world/indonesia/indonesia.gif

Got to wonder why anyone would want to live on this hotbed of seismic activity.

Geez that's unreal.

Its now been rated at 8.9! :(

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I know kman lives there, but he's always on the move. Lets hope for him he was on the move if he lives in the hitted area :yinyang

They're saying 2,200 dead now, and going over 3k easily. Damn.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=360096

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that was hilarious.

Sri Lanka seems most badly hit, more than 500000 houses are damaged. 20 Feet high tsunami's...damn! :ticking

yikes, thats crazy... I've never heard of such a destructive earthquake :sadcrying .

You haven't heard much then, have you?

Turkey, 1999, about 17,000 people died.

Earthquake A Us Military Plot
 

Over 3,300 people in South East Asia dead.

This was a HAARP experiment:

Environmental warfare is defined as the intentional modification or manipulation of the natural ecology, such as climate and weather, earth systems such as the ionosphere, magnetosphere, tectonic plate system, and/or the triggering of seismic events (earthquakes) to cause intentional physical, economic, and psycho-social, and physical destruction to an intended target geophysical or population location, as part of strategic or tactical war." (Eco News)

THE ULTIMATE WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION

wow ..that is really sux

Dec 26, 2003 - 31000 casualties in Iranian Earthquake.

God hates muslims.

Wondering why people get banned on this board for calling others "Pedo" but someone like the mega idiot DarkJedi is still allowed to post...

7,200 reported dead and 1,000,000 lost homes.

I think the death toll will go up much higher than it is now. At least double. What a shame.

Oh come on, because this is a Muslim area, they're going to say the US Military caused this earthquake??

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh Get real. They're good at coming up with exotic weapons systems, but not this good. I hardly think we've got earthquakes in our weapons arsenal now.

that really sucks.

January 23, 1556 Shensi, China 830,000 Killed from an 8 Magnitude

I believe that egghead Bush and his corrupt killer gang are doing a lot of evil but this is a bit too much... Also take a look which country has been worst hit. Sri Lanka is Muslim? :helpme

300 Sri Lankan convicts escape as tsunami destroys jail:
At least 300 prisoners escaped from a high-security jail in southern Sri Lanka today after it was destroyed by tidal waves that killed more 400 people and left many more missing, police said.

The prison in Matara, 160 kilometres south of the capital, Colombo, was battered by the waves and the inmates took advantage of the natural disaster to flee, a police official said.

"About 300 inmates have escaped," the official said.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems...2/s1272459.htm

February 28, 1780 Iran 200,000 Killed from an undetermined mag quake

December 16, 1920 Ningxia-Kansu, China 200,000 Killed from an 8.6 quake

September 1, 1923 Kanto, Japan 143,000 Killed from a 7.9 quake

May 22, 1927 TSinghai, China 200,000 Killed from a 7.9 quake

July 27, 1976 Tangshan, China 255,000 Killed from a 7.5 quake

Despite that stuff and wars and disease they still manage to have 1.4 billion people.

To put the power of an 8.9 quake in perspective. Its the equivalent of approximately 30 Billion Tons of TNT going off at once.

That's equal to 60 Trillion Pounds of dynamite.

That is one hell of a Kaaaaabooooooooooom

A nuclear bomb is equal to 32 Million tons of TNT in comparison.

This is just nuts. Check out this map to get an idea of how huge this earthquake was. It shows the areas affected by the tsunami.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/bsp.../img/image.gif

I mean, even Somalia? By the way, Sumatra is the island west of Malaysia. That's fucked up. Last report i saw said the death toll was at over 10 thousand now.

The tsunami waves barreled nearly 3,000 miles across the ocean to Africa, where at least nine people were killed in Somalia.

Sunbathers on the beaches of the Thai resort of Phuket were washed away. A group of 32 Indians ? including 15 children ? were killed while taking a ritual Hindu bath to mark the full moon day.

"All the planet is vibrating" from the quake, said Enzo Boschi, the head of Italy's National Geophysics Institute. Speaking on SKY TG24 TV, Boschi said the quake even disturbed the Earth's rotation.

About 170 children at an orphanage were feared dead after tidal waves pounded it in Mullaithivu

The huge waves struck around breakfast time on the beaches of Thailand's beach resorts ? probably Asia's most popular holiday destination at this time of year, particularly for Europeans fleeing the winter cold ? wiping out bungalows, boats and cars, sweeping away sunbathers and snorkelers, witnesses said.

"Initially we just heard a bang, a really loud bang," Gerrard Donnelly of Britain, a guest at Phuket island's Holiday Inn, told Britain's Sky News. "We initially thought it was a terrorist attack, then the wave came and we just kept running upstairs to get on as high ground as we could."

"People that were snorkeling were dragged along the coral and washed up on the beach, and people that were sunbathing got washed into the sea," said Simon Clark, 29, a photographer from London vacationing on Ngai island.

On Phuket, Somboon Wangnaitham, deputy director of the Wachira Hospital, said one of the worst hit areas was the populous Patong beach, where at least 32 people died and 500 were injured.

Another survivor on Phuket was Natalia Moyano, 22, of Sydney, Australia, who was being treated for torn ligaments.

"The water kept rising. It was very slow at first, then all of a sudden, it went right up," Moyano said. "At first I didn't think there was any danger, but when I realized the water kept rising so quickly, I tried to jump over a fence, but it broke."

On Phi Phi island ? where "The Beach" starring Leonardo DiCaprio was filmed ? 200 bungalows at two resorts were swept out to sea.

"I am afraid that there will be a high figure of foreigners missing in the sea and also my staff," said Chan Marongtaechar, owner of the PP Princess Resort and PP Charlie Beach Resort.

Ask all those guys on the west coast.. then they would probably ask why we live in Hurricane Ally..

I have a business friend in Madras India where one of the big tidal waves hit. Just e-mailed him. No response back yet. :(

3 American tourists confirmed goners.

Any news about Bangalore, Karnataka in India?

mpegmaster lives there :(

I think a lot of the Indian coastline got hit. Still waiting to hear from a friend of mine in Madras.

I think this is going to tally to horrendous numbers once communications are restored and teams go in to assess the actual damage and loss of life.