Four 8+ Earthquakes Hit Indonesia, Tsunami Warnings Issued

[Iceman]

Jakarta: Indonesia has issued a tsunami warning after a quake with a preliminary magnitude of 8.7 hit waters off westernmost Aceh province. The US Geological Survey said Wednesday the quake was centered 20 miles (33 kilometers) beneath the ocean floor around 308 miles (495 kilometers) from the provincial capital of Banda Aceh.
Said, an official at Indonesia's Meteorology and Geophysics Agency who goes by only one name, said a tsunami warning has been issued. India also issued tsunami warning for Nicobar Islands following massive earthquake off Sumatra coast.
Tremors were also felt in Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore and several other cities on the eastern coast of India.

Indonesia straddles a series of fault lines that makes the vast island nation prone to volcanic and seismic activity.
A giant 9.1-magnitude quake off the country on December 26, 2004, triggered a tsunami in the Indian Ocean that killed 230,000 people, nearly three quarter of them in Aceh.

[Ammi]

.. jesus I hope not..peoples lives and homes lost and the devastation it causes..they seem to be happening one after another these days..those poor people..you just can't imagine what it's like..to think there could be a tsunami coming your way..terrifying

[Benjamin]

Doesn't seem that long ago since Sendai.

[arista]

Our PM is there Live in Jakarta


They did not feel it (ref: ITVNews Report)

[arista]

.. jesus I hope not..peoples lives and homes lost and the devastation it causes..they seem to be happening one after another these days..those poor people..you just can't imagine what it's like..to think there could be a tsunami coming your way..terrifying


The Problem could be the Wave can take some time to start up

[Smithy]

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[Marc]

ahh sh*t

[Iceman]

4:34 PM USGS: Another earthquake in Indonesia of 8.2 on Richter scale off the west coast of Northern Sumatra.

4:31 PM Reuters reports a magnitude 8.6 earthquake off Indonesia coast at 6.2 miles depth quoting USGS

[Benjamin]

...A later alert said that sea level readings indicated a tsunami was generated and that it "may already have been destructive along some coasts"...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17675399

[Mrluvaluva]

Tsunami measuring 10 cm (four inches) hits Thai coast: disaster centre.


Sky blog (http://news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16206490)

[Iceman]

Jaksa: "Fifty centimetres can be quite dangerous. You only need about 20 centimetres to lift up a car and make it move, so this is not insignificant"
by Sunita.Patel 12:56 PM

Jaksa: "Off the coast off Indonesia at the moment there's 50 centimetres, or 20 inches"
by Sunita.Patel 12:56 PM

[Smithy]

1st earthquake: 8.9 | 2nd earthquake: 8.5 | 3rd earthquake: 8.6 | 4th earthquake: 8.8

D:

[Benjamin]

I suppose 50cm does not sound a lot, but because of the sheer volume of water that follows it, I imagine it actually can be quite dangerous.

[Mrluvaluva]

Tsunamis of up to 80cm hit Indonesia after quake: meteorological agency.

[Iceman]

1st earthquake: 8.9 | 2nd earthquake: 8.5 | 3rd earthquake: 8.6 | 4th earthquake: 8.8

D:

Dont they usually recede?

[Mrluvaluva]

New #Tsunami warning after massive aftershock of 8.2 Appears no significant waves after first #earthquake but many warnings still in place.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre says the areas under tsunami watch include: Indonesia, India, Australia, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Maldives, Malaysia, Mauritius, Reunion, Seychelles, Oman, Pakistan, Somalia, Madagascar, Iran, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Comores, Mozambique, Kenya, Tanzania, Crozet Islands, Bangladesh, Kerguelen Islands, South Africa and Singapore.

The general view of experts appears to be that the earthquake that caused the 2004 tsunami had a magnitude of 9.2, but was also of a much stronger vertical component, whereas today's was more horizontally directed.

[bbfan1991]

How terrifying, feel sorry for all the people there:(.

[Benjamin]

Dont they usually recede?

Not always. Sometimes the aftershock can be greater than the earthquake. In that case the aftershock becomes the earthquake and the original earthquake becomes a foreshock.

[Mrluvaluva]

Tsunami watch has been lifted for most of Indian Ocean, remains for Indonesia, India, islands.

[Patrick]

We won't hear the end of this now.