Indonesia Disaster Agency says major quakes produced only small tsunami waves because of horizontal plate movement.. But the main disaster of the big quakes still happened
Day: April 11, 2012
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Maybe no tsunami? Potential good news
Weather Channel reports: Roger Musson (Brit. Geo. Survey) via AP: Quake was strike-slip. Earth moves horizontally…doesn’t displace large volumes of water
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It’s not over yet
More: US Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issues new Indian Ocean warning following latest aftershocks ..
USGS: A second quake, magnitude 8.2, strikes off west coast of Sumatra..
Local Indonesian authorities issue a fresh tsunami warning following an aftershock with magnitude 8.2..
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More aftershocks
Aftershock of 8.2 reported near the original 8.6 quake. 3.5 foot water rise reported near northwest coast of Sumatra (Meulaboh).
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Aftershock greater that first shake?
FLASH: Indonesia’s geophysics agency says aftershocks in Aceh include quake of 8.8 on Richter scale, issues tsunami warning
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All the trouble in the world: Korean Peninsula edition
Planes diverted to avoid North Korean rocket launch
And there is more..And as far as the threat from new leader Kim in the North, what is the real truth on the rocket launch possibility? Experts seem to agree that it is not being launched for what North Korea claims it will be, a pure satellite to monitor forests and weather patterns. ..The final newsworthy article about North Korea floating across newswires and the internet tonight is this: You thought the Soviet gulags were bad? You maybe didn’t see this article on North Korean camps in which 150,000 simply languish in prison camps. Entire families suffer and die in these prison camps, according to the UN report.. also in the prison: Children and grandparents for ‘political crimes’ of their family members.The AP reports this on the camps:The labor colonies are enclosed behind barbed wire and electrified fences, mainly in the north and north central mountains of the country, the report says, alleging high rates of death in detention due to systemic mistreatment, torture, execution and malnutrition.The report says former prisoners were able to identify their former barrack and houses, work sites, execution grounds and other landmarks in the camps via imagery available through Google Earth.The committee says the report’s findings contradict a December 2009 statement by North Korea to the United Nations Human Rights Council that the political prisoner camps don’t existDid you ever get that pit of your stomach feeling where you know the world is truly mad? I have it now…