An amateur geophysicist's opinion of what caused the Tsunami
Posted on one of my groups. FYI - Anna Webb
Begin forwarded message:
On Dec. 23, 2004 an 8.1 quake struck off the SW coast of New Zealand. The epicenter of this quake was very close to an area of maximum intensity in the earth's magnetic field - see map F at
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/WMM/image.shtml
The quake was also located along the perimeter of the Indo-Australian Tectonic Plate. This in itself was a "Great Quake". Only an average of 1 occurs worldwide per year (prior to this, only 13 quakes greater than 8.0 had occurred since 1990).
This quake would have set up reverberations around the "Ring of Fire", especially along the perimeter of the Indo-Australian Plate.
Two days and 10 hours go by and the earth, sun and moon align. It's a full moon and the earth is being pulled in one direction by sun and another direction by moon. It's like tripping a mouse trap - all of sudden a tremendous amount of energy is released by a small gravitational tug, and a 9.0 earthquake strikes off Sumatra - also along the perimeter of the Indo-Australian Plate. The rest is history, in fact it is history still in the making.
But it's my opinion that the pre-existing conditions I've described set up conditions that caused Mega-Quake and the massive Tsunami that followed.
Zy.
Begin forwarded message:
On Dec. 23, 2004 an 8.1 quake struck off the SW coast of New Zealand. The epicenter of this quake was very close to an area of maximum intensity in the earth's magnetic field - see map F at
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/WMM/image.shtml
The quake was also located along the perimeter of the Indo-Australian Tectonic Plate. This in itself was a "Great Quake". Only an average of 1 occurs worldwide per year (prior to this, only 13 quakes greater than 8.0 had occurred since 1990).
This quake would have set up reverberations around the "Ring of Fire", especially along the perimeter of the Indo-Australian Plate.
Two days and 10 hours go by and the earth, sun and moon align. It's a full moon and the earth is being pulled in one direction by sun and another direction by moon. It's like tripping a mouse trap - all of sudden a tremendous amount of energy is released by a small gravitational tug, and a 9.0 earthquake strikes off Sumatra - also along the perimeter of the Indo-Australian Plate. The rest is history, in fact it is history still in the making.
But it's my opinion that the pre-existing conditions I've described set up conditions that caused Mega-Quake and the massive Tsunami that followed.
Zy.
Starmail - 1. Jan, 10:52
