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2 Kings 23:26
Notwithstanding the LORD turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked hi
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Posted by: JG on Wednesday, December 29, 2004 - 01:06 AM
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Quake rattled Earth orbit, changed map of Asia: US geophysicist. Scientist confirm biblical disasters are starting. Four hurricanes in Florida, over a foot of snow outside of Houston Texas and now a disaster that will take over 100,000 lives. Is anyone paying attention. Is anyone praying for mercy?
| A seismograph read-out shows the magnitude of the quake that rocked Indonesia and unleashed deadly tidal waves on Asia. It was so powerful, geophysicists said, that it made the Earth wobble on its axis and permanently altered the regional map |
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An earthquake that unleashed deadly tidal waves on Asia was so powerful it made the Earth wobble on its axis and permanently altered the regional map, US geophysicists said.
The 9.0-magnitude temblor that struck 250 kilometers (155 miles) southeast of Sumatra island Sunday may have moved small islands as much as 20 meters (66 feet), according to one expert.<br |
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Quake rattled Earth orbit, changed map of Asia: US geophysicist. Scientist confirm biblical disasters are starting. Four hurricanes in Florida, over a foot of snow outside of Houston Texas and now a disaster that will take over 100,000 lives. Is anyone paying attention. Is anyone praying for mercy?
| | A seismograph read-out shows the magnitude of the quake that rocked Indonesia and unleashed deadly tidal waves on Asia. It was so powerful, geophysicists said, that it made the Earth wobble on its axis and permanently altered the regional map |
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An earthquake that unleashed deadly tidal waves on Asia was so powerful it made the Earth wobble on its axis and permanently altered the regional map, US geophysicists said.
The 9.0-magnitude temblor that struck 250 kilometers (155 miles) southeast of Sumatra island Sunday may have moved small islands as much as 20 meters (66 feet), according to one expert.
"That earthquake has changed the map," US Geological Survey expert Ken Hudnut told AFP.
"Based on seismic modeling, some of the smaller islands off the southwest coast of Sumatra may have moved to the southwest by about 20 meters. That is a lot of slip."
The northwestern tip of the Indonesian territory of Sumatra may also have shifted to the southwest by around 36 meters (120 feet), Hudnut said.
In addition, the energy released as the two sides of the undersea fault slipped against each other made the Earth wobble on its axis, Hudnut said.
"We can detect very slight motions of the Earth and I would expect that the Earth wobbled in its orbit when the earthquake occurred due the massive amount of energy exerted and the sudden shift in mass," Hudnut said.
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Another USGS research geophysicist agreed that the Earth would have got a "little jog," and that the islands off Sumatra would have been moved by the quake.
However, Stuart Sipkin, of the USGS National Earthquake Information Center in Golden Colorado, said it was more likely that the islands off Sumatra had risen higher out of the sea than they had moved laterally.
"In in this case, the Indian plate dived below the Burma plate, causing uplift, so most of the motion to the islands would have been vertical, not horizontal."
The tsunamis unleashed by the fourth-biggest earthquake in a century have left at least 23,675 people dead in eight countries across Asia and as far as Somalia in East Africa.
The tsunamis wiped out entire coastal villages and pulled beach-goers out to sea.
The International Red Cross estimated that up to one million people have been displaced by the natural calamity.
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