Clip from Tsunami in Asia, Scary!!

joseph brand

Tsunami

Amazing how it creeps so slow but yet so fast, and people hang on probably thinking this is as high as it will get.

chewy

Earth now spins faster and has tilted an inch

The deadly Asian earthquake may have permanently accelerated the Earth's rotation -- shortening days by a fraction of a second -- and caused the planet to wobble on its axis, U.S. scientists said on Tuesday.

Richard Gross, a geophysicist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, theorized that a shift of mass toward the Earth's center during the quake on Sunday caused the planet to spin 3 microseconds, or 3 millionths of a second, faster and to tilt about an inch on its axis.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=IESG1YFI1NHI2CRBAELCFFA?type=scienceNews&storyID=7195443

Some islands moved 15-20 metres - would know more info if it werent for Al Qaeda

Hudnut said seismic modeling suggested the quake may have moved small islands by as much as 20 meters (66 feet), and the northwestern tip of the Indonesian territory of Sumatra may also have shifted to the southwest by around 36 meters (118 feet).

"That is a lot of slip," he said.

The energy released as the two sides of the geological fault line deep beneath the sea slipped against one another would have made the Earth wobble on its axis, Hudnut said.

Tapponnier said the quake caused a 15- to 20-meter slippage of the earth's surface along a front extending for 100 kilometers (62 miles).

He said there may also have been vertical movements that possibly pushed the island of Siberut, 100 kilometers west of Sumatra, one or two meters higher, although it would be impossible to check this scientifically because of guerrilla activity in the area.

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/afp/20041227/earthquake.html

Turner

see also

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=213609

JackKelly

god, it just wipes those people away.

seamus

The full, quality version of that is even more staggering. Most notably, what happened to the old man and his wife caught on the rail that was swept away

It's probably the best footage of the wave coming in. Scary stuff. I didn't realise that they're nothing like normal waves in behaviour. That the water came in, and kept coming, kept rising, until everything, even what the camera man was standing on, was washed away. One can only guess that the camera was destroyed, but the memory card was OK.

JackKelly

God, thats fairly sickening.Poor People

steveland?

That clip's really scary actually. When you first see it it looks kinda tame like it's just a small wave but suddenly everything's covered in water and people are getting washed away...

Apparently more people died that would have a few years ago cos a lot of people rushed to the seafront to videotape the waves.

I saw this video (or I think it was this video, it was a little longer) on SkyNews and they were saying you can see a jetski and a yacht just a tiny bit offshore and they're perfectly safe cos the waves hadn't built up enough power and all it did was make the boats rock a tiny bit.

It struck me as kind of ironic the safest place to be was in the ocean...