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Yesterday Indonesia was rocked by another massive earthquake 8.9 on the richter scale..The island of Nais has been particularly badly hit, and the infrastructure is devestated...on Nais alone over 100 people were killed and as many again are missing trapped under fallen buildings...
Awww, how sad. My heart goes out to all of the survivors and also to the families of the people who lost their lives. Whenever I hear about these sort of things on the news it makes me so greatful that I live in a part of the world where there are very few natural disasters.
what's with all of the earthquakes lately? I really feel for those people. They've had to deal with enough shit already this year.
Well, we in west Malaysia felt it too. Many were shocked and was very afraid that a second Tsunami might strike. But thank God it was just a tremor for us.
Malaysia is known for being one of the countries least attack by natural disasters. But, I think now we have to change our mindset.
yes rain you right. but this not something that happen in our country. just that, we been affected. anyway, we can consider ourself the lucky one.
it always amazes me that it always seems to be the countries who don't have much in the first place, who are affected by these tradgedies. of course we all know the US has its share of earth quakes. it's believed there will be one in the not too distant future, and japan as well has had its fair share, but even so, this particular region has only just been struck by disaster, and the people who have begun to put their lives together again now have to try and start again.
Indonesia is in an earthquake zone
Indonesia is in an earthquake zone
Indonesia is in an earthquake zone
Well, for those of you who are interested
This particular earth uake was expected. The main reason was that the original earthquake caused a big shift in the tactonic plate junction due to the shift of one of the plates. So much so that this earthquake was predicted e.g. in a BBC news article only two weeks ago. Inevitably that build-up of tension had to be releazed somehow to return the tacnotic plate balance to normal, usually this happens between 6 months and 3 years after the initial big earthquake, this has happened in the States and Japan so it is a well known phenominon, so uinfortunately this sort of had to happen.
In addition indonesia is built up around the biggest and most active subduction zone in the world. A subduction zone are tactonic plate juncions where one plate is being forced to move under the other one, thus melting away rock etc that sinks back down to the earth's core and is circulated. Due to these unusual circumstances the most spectacular volcanic erruptions and some of the biggest earth quakes take place in this area. In general the so-called ring of fire, around the pacific ocean is all caused by subduction zone activity but that activity is most concentrated around the Indonesian islands, see e.g. the Krakatoa erruption in 1882 that killed 36000 people and is the biggest registered explotion recorded in human history, heard as far as 3000 mile away. Thus this is just a natural phenominon haunting the lands of Indonesia and sometimes affecting neighbouring countries and this will not stop, not in the next 3 to 5 million years at any wait.
cheers
-B
These poor feckers must think its the end of the world ....and Anka Krakatoa in Java is extremely overdue if it does erupt the biggest explosion and subsequent tsunami, known to man, will obliterate everything in its path...
It's hard to say. That particular island is not expected to blow completely any time soon since it's been having a constant series of small erruptions so scientist still reckon some of the energy has been let out through those minor explotions but, true, this whole area is another geological disaster waiting to happen, not only is Krakatoa right there but also two other huge volcanoes one that blew up in 1815 and caused one of the biggest volcanic erruptions in modern history and another volcano or a caliera that was formed when the land collapsed in a huge, gigantic explotion 74000 years ago which reduced the entire human race down to only 10000 people and eliminated a lot of the genetic variation in the human race. I don't have the names of those two explotions handy but you can find them on any super volcano site. YellowStone is also overdue a massive erruption and that will eliminate about half of the U.S. but it may take hundreds or thousands of years before the actual event happens as that volcano only errupts approximately once every 600000 years (and it's been 640000 years now) and another potential disaster lurks in Oregon. Basically nature is so infinitely more powerful than we are and we can do nothing to stop or prevent these things from happening, we just have to appreciate being alive and hope for the best.
Cheers
-B
Agree with Chels666...My heart goes out to everyone there...I wish there was something I could do to help them but I can't think of anything except to just think of them and donate to some charity thing if i can.
The 1815 eruption WAS Krakatoa which no longer exists as it blew itself apart...however the volcano which was created by that eruption IS Anak Krakatoa Anka means son of in Javanese ...volcanologists have been expecting it to erupt in this centuary, but so far nothing significant has occured but, with all this activity it can only
be a matter of time..as Sumatra which lies at the epicentre of the quake is very close to Java..
Goblin,
Nope, get your facts straight, Krakatoa blew in August 1882, in 1815 a volcano named Tambora errupted and it was a huge erruption.
Anak Krakatoa (the son of Krakatoa, yes, that's what it means) is an island that started forming in a serioes of erruptions starting in 1928. Actually the tension has not built up to any kind of dangerous point yet and earthquake activity and volcanic erruptions are not directly related, the type of earthquakes experienced before a major erruption as a result of magma makingits way to the surface are small earthquakes r2 to r4 with high frequencies. Sure Krakatoa will blow again but no one is expecting that to happen seriously for hundreds of years to come, of course no one can be sure about these things.
hmmm It's so hard to keep track of them all but at least I can admit to being confused...and don't patronise me pal its demeaning and insulting ..as for yellowstone well that's expected to explode a lot sooner than you think...
hmmm It's so hard to keep track of them all but at least I can admit to being confused...and don't patronise me pal its demeaning and insulting ..as for yellowstone well that's expected to explode a lot sooner than you think...
Funny how you, Goblin, seem to think you can correct everyone and never seem to concider they might be confused but when it comes to someone correcting you, you feel it's demeaning and insulting. Well, then maybe your remarks are also demeaninga nd insulting to others. What goes around, comes around hmm?
Goblin, the post I was responding to did not seem at all confused, you wrote it as if you knew the facts for sure, however I was just correcting the facts as it were.
And, well, you are a fine one to talk about demeaning and insulting people .. jeez, that's all I can say pal
well wildebrew all you did was point out the facts, I'm sure if it had been the other way round and you'd got it wrong our learned friend would have had not qualms in telling you how ignorant you were ...