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To: TigerPaw who wrote (214235)1/4/2005 12:04:25 PM
From: Taro  Respond to of 1574212
 
Tiger,

guess you are right that 8.0 or 9.0 does not make the difference. I wouldn't know because I am not an expert in this area. But I read that the guys in Hawaii on their own initiative at least try to contact their peers close to the epicenter but had no phone numbers on record to do so and couldn't find anything but an answering machine where they found a number. They did talk to their colleges in Australia though and asked them to try their best.

Anyway, in hindsight everything is sad indeed and it seems so much more easy to have reacted and even improvised better.

Taro



To: TigerPaw who wrote (214235)1/4/2005 3:29:00 PM
From: tejek  Respond to of 1574212
 
It was upgraded to 9.0 only later.

It's not the magnitude of an earthquake which creates a tsunami, but the specific frequency at the surface. A high frequency will cause frothy surface conditions but no wave, a very low frequency will cause a low slow moving wave that would act more like a tide. This one was just right to slosh the water out of the indian ocean.

In addition, tsunamis are usually found in the Pacific and not the Indian Ocean.

ted


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