Animation of the Tsunami Hitting Everywhere
 

Wow... That is some crazy shit.

wow
good find krl

thanks! that was extremely informative

Surfs up :(

According to that animation, land stopped the 20 foot waves like a Klingon force field.

How far inland did it go?

Can anyone confirm that the waves were traveling anywhere near 500 KM an hour? The BBC reported that these waves can travel that fast.

The 40 foot waves went up to 1 mile inland.

They go about as fast as a jet airplane correct.

Fucked up shit yo

That explains why so many people got hit by the waves. By the time they saw the wave it was too late.

wow that shows just how big of an impact that had...

Figuring the math here.

Each cubic mile of seawater weighs approximately 4.7 billion tons.

Mean ocean depth out there is about 2 miles.

The ground shift was 600 miles long.

Figuring a 10 mile width on the movement.

2 x 10 x 600 = 12,000 cubic miles x 4.7 Billion Tons = 57 Trillion Tons of Water was lifted up by the earthquake.

Bottom line on that equation? Don't fuck with Mother Nature.

was approx 6 miles deep hence so much more devastating

oddly enough, when i cum the same effects can be felt around the world

What a horrible thing this was. What I've seen on the news has been horrifying.

And to think I almost had my wife convinced to get a place on the ocean. Damn it all to hell!

this is incredibe...immagine a 6 meter high wave traveling 500 km per hour....pure power

lol ... that's really a lot of power there . And we brag about our atomics bombs

What's even sadder about the whole thing is that so many of the people hit by the tsunamis had no idea they were coming. :(

that's why my bed was shaking in the morning?

Interesting Real Time Seismic Monitor Worldwide

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

So 15,000+ are dead.. anyone think the toll will rise to 25,000 by the end of the week?

Add in a cholera epidemic in a couple days and yes unfortunately it will prob get that higher at least

I hope not :(

But I think we will see 20k.

holy shit



thats scary

i dont see any animation??
only a pics without link

They expect an epidemic to hit the areas there since there will be no clean water and sewage is fucked for alot of people..

I think there will be massive malaria and shit like that, sad to say but I think ALOT more people will die this week...

Just a tiny bit of clarification here...

1) The wave tops on open sea are not much higher than 2 meters. That is why you do not notice them until they reach the shore.

2) The 500km/h speed is on the ocean FLOOR on OPEN SEA.

3) The speed drops dramatically once it hits shallower water, and the wave then builds up.

This of course does not make it any less dangerous, but just wanted to point this out so everyone understood.

It really works just like the tsunami you see in Deep Impact. Just a (little) smaller. 14m (which the highest ones were as far as I know) is still extremely high of course. And these waves do not just get 14m high and come russing to you, they start small, so you do not notice them and then they hit shallower water, pull all the water away from the shore and build up to 14m in a matter of seconds, and then just hit the shore.

Good post. I basically knew this (I have a degree in Geophysics) but didn't have the energy to post it :drinkup

this animation is geographically inaccurate. the epicenter of the quaque was in sumatra, way more south. the epicenter depicted here is located where the andaman islands are


just my 2 cents

ooops sorry , the map is accurate , its the news reports that are not , all the news say its a quaque in sumatra but in fact most quakes as well as the strongest originated on the adaman islands ?

one more proof not to trust CNN and most news chanels

DATE LAT LON MAG DEPTH REGION
27-DEC-2004 06:59:12 3.01 95.54 5.4 10.0 OFF W COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATERA
27-DEC-2004 00:49:26 12.98 92.45 6.1 10.0 ANDAMAN ISLANDS, INDIA
27-DEC-2004 00:32:13 5.50 94.46 6.0 10.0 NORTHERN SUMATERA, INDONESIA
26-DEC-2004 19:03:46 4.07 94.20 5.6 10.0 OFF W COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATERA
26-DEC-2004 15:12:21 6.70 93.02 5.6 10.0 NICOBAR ISLANDS, INDIA
26-DEC-2004 15:06:32 3.70 94.02 5.7 10.0 OFF W COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATERA
26-DEC-2004 14:48:41 13.60 92.87 5.9 10.0 ANDAMAN ISLANDS, INDIA
26-DEC-2004 12:11:55 11.59 92.45 5.5 10.0 ANDAMAN ISLANDS, INDIA
26-DEC-2004 12:09:41 12.21 92.62 5.4 10.0 ANDAMAN ISLANDS, INDIA
26-DEC-2004 11:05:00 13.54 92.88 6.3 10.0 ANDAMAN ISLANDS, INDIA
26-DEC-2004 10:19:29 13.45 92.79 6.2 10.0 ANDAMAN ISLANDS, INDIA
26-DEC-2004 10:18:12 8.95 93.73 5.5 10.0 NICOBAR ISLANDS, INDIA
26-DEC-2004 09:20:01 8.87 92.38 6.5 10.0 NICOBAR ISLANDS, INDIA
26-DEC-2004 07:38:24 13.12 93.05 5.8 10.0 ANDAMAN ISLANDS, INDIA
26-DEC-2004 07:07:09 10.34 93.76 5.7 10.0 ANDAMAN ISLANDS, INDIA
26-DEC-2004 06:21:58 10.62 92.32 5.7 10.0 ANDAMAN ISLANDS, INDIA
26-DEC-2004 04:21:26 6.90 92.95 7.3 10.0 NICOBAR ISLANDS, INDIA
26-DEC-2004 03:08:42 13.81 92.97 6.1 10.0 ANDAMAN ISLANDS, INDIA
26-DEC-2004 02:59:12 3.18 94.26 5.9 10.0 OFF W COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATERA
26-DEC-2004 02:51:59 12.51 92.59 6.0 10.0 ANDAMAN ISLANDS, INDIA
26-DEC-2004 02:36:06 12.14 93.01 5.8 10.0 ANDAMAN ISLANDS, INDIA
26-DEC-2004 02:34:50 4.10 94.18 5.8 10.0 OFF W COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATERA
26-DEC-2004 02:22:01 8.86 92.50 6.0 10.0 NICOBAR ISLANDS, INDIA
26-DEC-2004 02:15:57 12.37 92.51 5.8 10.0 ANDAMAN ISLANDS, INDIA
26-DEC-2004 01:48:46 5.39 94.42 5.9 10.0 NORTHERN SUMATERA, INDONESIA
26-DEC-2004 00:58:50 3.30 95.78 8.5 10.0 OFF W COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATERA

:yinyang wow that sure is a lot of energy...

an article I read said something along the lines of the earthquake had the equivalent energy of 323 billion tons of tnt, or 2 million times the bomb dropped on hiroshima.

fuckkkkkk

the wave also reached the seychelles and africa.
A shitload of boats(fisher) are destroyed, a few dead and missing...

Great post as always KRL poor bastards never stood a chance...

The news reported it right, you are talking about different quakes.

yup that map is missing a huge area

thats fucking insane when did this happen?

:eek7 You serious?

Very true KRL, Mother nature will win every time!