Quake Disturbs Earth's Rotation
Correspondent:: asscoassc@aol.comBLOWME (AssCo Assc)
Date: 27 Dec 2004 01:35:56 GMT
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Adjust your watches accordingly.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=361524
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"All the planet is vibrating" from the quake, said Enzo Boschi, the head of
Italy's National Geophysics Institute. Speaking on SKY TG24 TV, Boschi said the
quake even disturbed the Earth's rotation.
The quake occurred at a place where several huge geological plates push
against each other with massive force. The survey said a 620-mile section along
the boundary of the plates shifted, motion that triggered the sudden
displacement of a huge volume of water.
Scientists said the death toll might have been reduced if India and Sri Lanka
had been part of an international warning system designed to advise coastal
communities that a potentially killer wave was approaching. Although Thailand
is part of the system, the west coast of its southern peninsula does not have
the system's wave sensors mounted on ocean buoys.
As it was, there was no warning. Gemunu Amarasinghe, an AP photographer in Sri
Lanka, said he saw young boys rushing to catch fish that had been scattered on
the beach by the first wave.
"But soon afterward, the devastating second series of waves came," he said. He
climbed onto the roof of his car, but "In a few minutes my jeep was under
water. The roof collapsed.
"I joined masses of people in escaping to high land. Some carried their dead
and injured loved ones. Some of the dead were eventually placed at roadside,
and covered with sarongs. Others walked past dazed, asking if anyone had seen
their family members."
Michael Dobbs, a reporter for The Washington Post, was swimming around a tiny
island off a Sri Lankan beach at about 9:15 a.m. when his brother called out
that something strange was happening with the sea.
Then, within minutes, "the beach and the area behind it had become an inland
sea, rushing over the road and pouring into the flimsy houses on the other
side. The speed with which it all happened seemed like a scene from the Bible a
natural phenomenon unlike anything I had experienced before," he wrote on the
Post's Web site.
Dobbs weathered the wave, but then found himself struggling to keep from being
swept away when the floodwaters receded.
ooOOoo
It petrifies the tongue. . .
Shoots arrows through the lung. . .
Guttural rending pain . . .
. . . and next it Sclerotifies the brain
-- Copyright 2004 Ilya Shambat
Correspondent:: "dried greek figs"
Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 21:15:01 -0500
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See also: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqinthenews/2004/usslav/
"Great..! Now both my computer clock
and WWV in Ft. Collins are f--ked up
just because the earth decided it was time
to rip a the eqv. of a geological BROCCOLI
FART someplace near where the orangutans
swing from the trees......"
- kenny in rec.radio.hobby.ham-radio
"AssCo Assc" wrote in message
news:20041226203556.10328.00001646@mb-m25.aol.com...
> Adjust your watches accordingly.
>
> http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=361524
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> "All the planet is vibrating" from the quake, said Enzo Boschi, the head
of
> Italy's National Geophysics Institute. Speaking on SKY TG24 TV, Boschi
said the
> quake even disturbed the Earth's rotation.
So....what's gonna happen? The Stock Market is gonna crash
because the Malysian, Thai and Java whore house sex tourists
spots are now all washed out to sea.....??
> The quake occurred at a place where several huge geological plates push
> against each other with massive force. The survey said a 620-mile section
along
> the boundary of the plates shifted, motion that triggered the sudden
> displacement of a huge volume of water.
(Another way to think of this is as *what happens* when you have a
huge turd propelled into the water behind a large pocket of
intestinal gas and your asscheeks and venusian portal get's
100% douched a milisecond later.......)
> Michael Dobbs, a reporter for The Washington Post, was swimming around a
tiny
> island off a Sri Lankan beach at about 9:15 a.m. when his brother called
out
> that something strange was happening with the sea.
** Michael Dobbs ** ??? (above)
Me thinks a new call to www.thankyoufortakingmycall.com is in the
offing.....