The question that has been on everyone's minds since 11:15pm would be... will Tsunamis strike again after the 8.2/8.5 quake in Sumatra? Will it cause the deaths of millions again? Will it flood Bangkok and Malaysia? Will Singapore eventually succumb to the quakes despite us sitting on the middle of a plate? Will we eventually have to build earthquake resistant homes? Will China manufacturers rejoice by producing more of the Tsunami wristbands from last year's tsunami craze? Finally, will I find food by 2:30am to feed my hungry tummy?
The answer to all the questions above are a resounding: Maybe. (Except the last one. I've got cup noodles~ Wahoo! Certainty!)
But before that, it's interesting how fast Channelnewsasia updated their site. Apparently the 1:30am update said that the epicentre was located on the island itself between Medan and Padang. But they took it down at 1:50am and changed it to 'the tremor struck between the offshore isles of Nias and Simeuleu, 33 kilometres under the sea.'
Similarly, the scale was changed from 8.5 on the richter scale to 8.2. Thus we could see the contradicting scales all over MSN.
The quake was close to the epicentre of a magnitude-9.0 seismic thrust which struck on December 26, throwing up a tsunami that killed more than 273,000 people around the Indian Ocean. Here I've included a nice picture stolen off the net last year which depicted the actual site of the Dec 26 tsunami.
Try finding the new epicentre. I have no idea where. But it's generally there. The tsunami created by the Dec 26 earthquake reached India and Sri Lanka in about four hours. So since it started at 11:15pm... 4 hours later would be around 3:15am. Ah well. You'll all probably only read this tomorrow.
For now. LAWR.
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