"great" earthquake in Indonesia - magnitude 8.9!

[cHeeZeFacTory]

Link

500+ feared dead

 

[SynthDude2001]

:Q

 

[Ryuson99]

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001
:Q

 

[machintos]

 

[jdiddy]

RIP damn thats a mean earthquake.

 

[Eli]

8.9......


:Q

 

[novasatori]

merry xmas!

 

[johnjbruin]

They are fearing 2200 dead across 5 different countries.

This really sucks

 

[Orsorum]

Originally posted by: novasatori
merry xmas!

:|

 

[Frew]

Jeez

 

[The Stigenator]

i was reading the indian news papers and i saw the headline "tidal waves kill 500 in madras".. i was like that can only happen on an earth quake.. then i read teh next headline 8.9 in indoensia..

Its unusual to have tidal waves in india, but the location of the earthquake definately hit 5 countries.. i wonder where else the tidal wave struck..

we are going to see a few more earthquakes world wide after this one, a few aroudn teh world.. not sure where next. I would say LA area will have one soon

I hate earthquakes.

 

[MySoS]

Stupid CNN never check their facts. The 1960 Chile and 1964 Alaskan quake both exceeded 9.0 making them stronger than the 1952 quake in Russia and less than 50 years ago. BAD BAD CNN.

 

[aircooled]

yikes!

could you imagine an 8.9 in the states?!?

 

[DaFinn]

Originally posted by: aircooled
yikes!

could you imagine an 8.9 in the states?!?

Bye bye California... :Q


RIP

 

[MySoS]

Originally posted by: aircooled
yikes!

could you imagine an 8.9 in the states?!?

Well Alaska is a State and Alaska has had a 9.2 1964 and a 9.0 in 1946.

I see CNN has corrected their article, it was filled with many mistakes before.

 

[Snapster]

The death figure will be in 1000's. 8.9, biggest for 40 years.

 

[ugh]

The after effects of the earthquake was pretty bad

http://www.guardian.co.uk/inte...0,3604,1379869,00.html

 

[preCRT]

Originally posted by: Snapster
The death figure will be in 1000's. 8.9, biggest for 40 years.

death toll will be in the tens of thousands, maybe the worst in hundreds of years.

 

[James3shin]

wow, thats horrible...hope things turn out ok

 

[artikk]

Originally posted by: cHeeZeFacTory
Link

500+ feared dead

I bet the earthquake happened due to a a collison of Eurasian and Australian plates.
Also the eartquake might relate to Indonesia's relative close position to the Ring of Fire of Japan.

 

[NakaNaka]

People's Experiences - From the BBC

 

[ski2slow]

 

[marleymarl]

Death Toll in Quake, Tsunami Reportedly Tops 6,300

http://reuters.myway.com/artic...T_0_NEWS-QUAKE-DC.html

 

[z0mb13]

Originally posted by: marleymarl
Death Toll in Quake, Tsunami Reportedly Tops 6,300

http://reuters.myway.com/artic...T_0_NEWS-QUAKE-DC.html

holy fsck!! this morning the death toll was around 100 ish.. now its 6000!!!



Thank god its quite far from the capital...

 

[TwiceOver]

Crazy. I knew I should have catched the news this morning.