Asia quake death toll tops 5,800 > SRI LANKA , INDIA, THAILAND with tsunamis - Page 3

Chewy · #51 (**permalink**) Dec 27, 04

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Originally Posted by maple blondie

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mmmmmmm nnnn mmmmmmmmmmmm

you wouldnt understand.. inside joke between me and mojo.. but if you want i can arrange to have you have him meet up.... he will explain everything

robyn · #52 (**permalink**) Dec 27, 04

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Originally Posted by Chewy

Yes ,, true..... but when the plates shift together... they dont just move in one spot ... they can move in many places... the point of origin will have the greatest tsunami but tectonic plates cover 1/4 of the globe... so if it moves in one spot it can move in another spot....

in conclusion .. tsunami can occur where ever the tectonic plates move against each other... so a tsunami can occur on the other side of the islands or near tokyo.... it might not be as severe as the epicenter but it can and does happen...as long as there is relative motion between two or more plates and water then a tsunami will occur....

Yes true! It's just the way you were saying it before it sounded like you ment a wave could happen ANYWHERE as a result of plate movement.

maple blondie · #53 (**permalink**) Dec 27, 04

mike says:
call chewy a dirty brown bastard

mike says:

he likes that

Chewy · #54 (**permalink**) Dec 27, 04

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Originally Posted by mapleleaf4ever

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/tectonics.html

Read and quit arguing. :)

Right on eric... just what i was trying to get to...

Chewy · #55 (**permalink**) Dec 27, 04

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Originally Posted by maple blondie

mike says:
call chewy a dirty brown bastard

mike says:

he likes that

that dirty bitch. tell mike imgonna walk to his house aand kick him in the nuts

mapleleaf4ever · #56 (**permalink**) Dec 27, 04

Geography 12 whut?!? lol

Chewy · #57 (**permalink**) Dec 27, 04

hey lang... im gonna play some tunes.. and wait around for the hoe to get up... i dont know when she is gonna get up... probly soon... but you might want to have a small snack if you sstill want to go... ill call you when i hear from her
peace

robyn · #58 (**permalink**) Dec 27, 04

Erik nothing in that link had ANYTHING to do with what we're talking about. It was just about history and driving mechanisms.

mapleleaf4ever · #59 (**permalink**) Dec 27, 04

^ I tried... it has to do with Earthquakes though. I guess that's what happens when I don't feel like reading the rest of the mindless rabble. :)

Ree Fresh · #60 (**permalink**) Dec 27, 04

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Originally Posted by maple blondie

mike says:
call chewy a dirty brown bastard

mike says:

he likes that

LOL

Mine was a lill like this:

mike says:
tell him that he knows everything becasue he is an electrician. hell love that

Ree Fresh · #61 (**permalink**) Dec 27, 04

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Originally Posted by mapleleaf4ever

^ I tried... it has to do with Earthquakes though. I guess that's what happens when I don't feel like reading the rest of the mindless rabble. :)

I have no idea how plates got involved... Someone asked if Tokyo was effected... UM not only is Tokyo in an other ocean, but a good fraction of earth away!

C_squared · #62 (**permalink**) Dec 27, 04

That is devestating.

I have been in earthquakes before and have seen the damge formyself. But this earthquake is just incredible. Tha'ts the brute force of mother nature.

We're next right? We are in the ring of fire.

edit: We as in the Pacific North West.

mapleleaf4ever · #63 (**permalink**) Dec 27, 04

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Originally Posted by wellbelove's

I have no idea how plates got involved... Someone asked if Tokyo was effected... UM not only is Tokyo in an other ocean, but a good fraction of earth away!

The shockwaves travel quite far. If there is an Earthquake in Tokyo, there is the possibility of it causing a Tsunami that can reach the BC Coast. I believe it's happened before.

http://www.usc.edu/dept/tsunamis/ala...daphoto_1.html

**ƒORM** · #64 (**permalink**) Dec 27, 04

http://tsunami.geo.ed.ac.uk/local-bi...pt/demo_run.pl

mojo · #65 (**permalink**) Dec 27, 04

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Originally Posted by mapleleaf4ever

The shockwaves travel quite far. If there is an Earthquake in Tokyo, there is the possibility of it causing a Tsunami that can reach the BC Coast. I believe it's happened before.

http://www.usc.edu/dept/tsunamis/ala...daphoto_1.html

i think this was a result of the earthquake off alaska in the 1930's. im not positive though.
i saw the same sorta thing on the cbc last night.

mapleleaf4ever · #66 (**permalink**) Dec 27, 04

I know they've got Tsunami/Wave Monitoring Equipment on Langara Island to provide early warning of such things. My Parents and myself lived there for awhile. There's also a fault line that cuts through that Island. What a lovely volitile part of the Coast we live on.

**ƒORM** · #67 (**permalink**) Dec 27, 04

The sad part of all of this is it could have been avoided. Alaska, Hawaii and other coastal cities all have monitoring equipment for off shore earthquakes. A simple siren, along the beaches of coastal cities would have been enough time for people to head inland. Maybe now the govt will pay for the equipment.

:(

-Dubs- · #68 (**permalink**) Dec 27, 04

tru tru, shitty part for me is i have good familly friends living in puket *i suck hard at spelling especially when it comes to this weird stuff*

mapleleaf4ever · #69 (**permalink**) Dec 27, 04

lol awwww Phuket!

Ree Fresh · #70 (**permalink**) Dec 27, 04

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Originally Posted by ƒORM

The sad part of all of this is it could have been avoided. Alaska, Hawaii and other coastal cities all have monitoring equipment for off shore earthquakes. A simple siren, along the beaches of coastal cities would have been enough time for people to head inland. Maybe now the govt will pay for the equipment.

:(

Even sader is the goverment probly cant afford such things. Its quite the learning experince when visiting a 3rd world country and seeing how they dont have the safty we do here.
Walking down the streets of Bangkok and welders would work only a meter above the bissy side walks... Not even a sighn to warn ppl of the dangerouse sparks raining down.
If you walk by a construction zone... all the workers have are helmets, a scarf around their mouth, and sighns posted in Thia & English "Safty First"

acidic_liquid · #71 (**permalink**) Dec 27, 04

It's crazy. The freakiest part is these people weren't warned. The earthquake happened in the sea, and a few hours later the tidal wave hit. People had no way of knowing about the wave. What if someone was sleeping and suddenly you just wake up to the sound of the water crashing into your house? *shudders*

If a quake were to hit tokyo, and send a tidal wave through the ocean to here, wouldn't we pick up on it? It would take more than a few hours wouldn't it?

Also, I read our government is giving $1 million for the cause. I think it's great, but I'm wondering if we really have the money for that.

Ree Fresh · #72 (**permalink**) Dec 27, 04

There giving even more! I think another $2 mill to the red cross...

I usualy dont give money to charity, but it's really effected me more after beign there... I think I can avored $5-$10 to the red cross. The UN is calling this one of the bigest diasters ever. It's hit so many countries and now their concernd about desieses. The problem has only began.

BrownThug · #73 (**permalink**) Dec 27, 04

ITS ANOTHER 3 MILLION NOW!!!!
thats 4 million total from canada

and the death toll has topped 400000!!!!!!!!!!1

fuck...they say its gonan be the most costly diaster in the history of the world.

Kraig · #74 (**permalink**) Dec 28, 04

Tsunami death toll could top 60,000

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapc...ake/index.html

Ree Fresh · #75 (**permalink**) Dec 28, 04

Donations to the Red Cross # 1 800 418 1111