Umm.. there doesn't seem to be a seismogram in India. Atleast one that's doesn't have a website... Anyone knows any effort in that direction? I wonder how hard it would be to hook up the device output to a web service.
I live in Indonesia, and there was Tsunami, about 30 minutes ago, as reported by local news TV. Two Tsunamis even, one 80 cm and another 60cm. My familly still feels many earthquakes after the first one, untill now. I live in Java, so I can't really feel the quake, but all my family's in North Sumatra, almost point-blank from the quake.
That's an irresponsible thing to say. Tsunamis can be caused by a variety of different phenomena. Certainly direct vertical displacement of the sea floor is the most direct way, but underwater landslides especially on the flanks of seamounts are capable of creating massive tsunamis as well. And the latter can come about due to any variety of shaking.
Sure hope tsunamis won't be as big a problem this time as they were in 2004.
That would really suck for everyone. I'm all the way here in Europe and in my mind that tsunami thing was "a year or two ago". Can't imagine how recent it must seem to everyone actually involved ...
For what it's worth, the article actually says the magnitude was 8.7 (at a depth of 33 kilometers), not 8.9 as in the title here—not that it matters much.
I hope it doesn't cause as much damage as the one in 2004!
The one in 2004 was 9.1. Quite a difference considering that scale is logarithmic. Since then lots of infrastructure and processes are created to evacuate people and issue tsunami warnings. So people are at least better prepared.
A 8.7 quake can still cause a devastating tsunami. In addition to the strength of the shocks, the directionality of the energy release (horizontal or vertical) is crucial.
This is on the other side of the India ocean. Interesting geological activity. What are the chances of two earth quakes occurring at close by places like this?
PS: the linked reddit comment alone helped me learn more about tsunami generation and horizontal/vertical earthquake movements than I knew before today)
There is also a history of posting news items for dangerous, large-scale events that don't match the given criteria, but may save some lives in case people in affected areas check HN but haven't heard warnings via other media.
> The tsunami, which washed away entire communities, caused nearly $10 billion in damage
So.. like 10 Valley start-ups? It's insane that livelihood of hundreds of thousands people in south east Asia is worth less than a few clever (and properly executed) ideas in CA.
You are missing the point that $10billion in damage in Asia is LOT more than $10 billion (damage) in the US etc.
For example, the damage from Hurricane Katrina was around $82 billion. While damaging, I am sure the 2004 tsunami was a even worse disaster than Katrina.
Oh no. I was getting used to being able to buy hard drives again. :( (I feel sort of bad that "what supply chains that I care about get disrupted" is my first concern with most disasters)
Tsunami in Indonesia can affect Singapore and Malaysia (and Thailand); Singapore/Malaysia is where a lot of the undamaged HD parts plants were, after the Thai flooding. I think the Indonesian plants were for arms (used by both WD and Seagate).
Also, a lot of other electronics assembly happens in Indonesia.
