Another Tsunami?

[hugoboss]

I've heard the people in Sri Lanka are convinced another Tsunami will happen on the 26th this month, as apparently the expect there to be another exactly 3 months after the first one. Has anyone else heard this, and what do you think the likely hood of this happening is?

[Dom Tuk]

Scaremongering i guess. having said that we have had 2 devastating earthquakes on 26 December for 2 consecutive years. not a coincidence i say. So i am waiting for 26/12/05

[keen2learn]

There was an article in the Independent this weekend that said there's a high likelihood of further quakes in the same area - something to do with stresses caused by the first one.

[Peter Pedant]

I think it is a millenarial belief

[Oneeyedvic]

Scarily, there has just been an earthquake off the coast of Sumatra (close to where the previous earthquake was) measuring 8.2 (the one on Boxing day was 9.0)

[sunflower68]

goodness hugo.....how odd is that???  Quite freaky actually. 

[jno]

Now revised up to 8.7 (by the Americans), though no tsunami reports yet. Well, not exactly a coincidence: it's on a fault line, so this is where this sort of thing happens.

[rja211077]

of course it's on a fault line and of course, after only 3 months, it's unlikely that all movement has ceased, but to predict this within 2 days...i think it's pretty damn spooky.

[ianess]

In agreement with other posts today....spooky.....but in an area reknowned for earthquakes it can happen at any time.    Just for the record the biggest quake to hit North America hit Alaska on March 28....1964.  Category 8+.

[ianess]

March 27 [Good Friday] according to this: http://www.ce.washington.edu/~liquefaction/html/quakes/a laska/alaska.html

[WaldoMcFroog]

Can we just clear up the idea that the Sumatra earthquake is in any way spooky? It's simply the aftershocks of the first one which caused the tsunami and was widely predicted by techtonics experts at the time. There are likely to be more, decreasing in severity with time.

I worry that people get caught up in trying to see supernatural elements whilst forgetting the far more important human disaster at hand. We've already had a Christian newsletter spouting some horsecack about a 'miraculous parting of the waves' saving a boat load of praying children. Such notions are deeply offensive - it's like saying 'God' (who is apparently the God of Love) 'didn't bother saving the others because they didn't pray.' Fatuous rubbish.

[keen2learn]

WaldoMcFroog I salute you.

[jno]

well said, Waldo, but it's fair to say - I've just been browsing back through the news - that there were also 'experts' around in the new year who said the first quake was so huge that it took all the pressure off and there wouldn't be another one for decades. Guess those were the wrong experts.

[rja211077]

Waldo - not seen you round here for a while - but you miss my point. Of course we'd expect aftershocks. No doubt minor ones have been ongoing since the main quake on boxing day. but my point was that there were no newsworthy aftershocks for 3 months, yet some bloke turns up on here and predicts a major aftershock with an accuracy of 2 days. I think that's pretty spooky, unless he'd seen specific predictions. You don't make it clear whether the expert predictions you mention were non-specific predictions of aftershocks at the time of the initial quake or whether the 28 March quake was predicted shortly beforehand (in which case, of course i agree, hugoboss' post would not be at all spooky).

[sunflower68]

Blimey you lot!  It's interesting, that's all.  What is the spookiest of all is.............where did  hugo go?  No reply from him. 

Must be the son of God.

[hugoboss]

Ha Ha! I am the son of God!! Try Daughter - i'm a laydeeee!! Thanks for all your replies. It is weird I think. I didn't predict it, my sister was talking to me about how she's heard people in Sri Lanka knew it was going to happen. Mother nature, eh? What weird ways she works in!

[sunflower68]

Nice one m'lady.  ;) x

[Kos]

This may be spooky but what is more worrying is that could the end of the World be now approaching as reported in a number of papers this week?

The Bible code predicts Armageddon in 2006 and Nostradamus predicts the second coming of the Lord in 2012, following a major disaster.

The number and size of earthquakes are certainly increasing and surely the Earth can only take so much stress before it starts to 'crack'?

Then there's all the harm mankind is doing damaging nature's lifecycles.

The end is nigh !!!!

[hugoboss]

Aw, thanks Kos ! - got me all anxious now!! i think it's pointless worrying about the end of the world, or at least talking about it. What can we do about it? Nowt!

[Kos]

My concern and major dilemna ,Hugoboss, is....

If I knew the World was going to end next year,  l would rack up huge debts and really enjoy myself and not pay anything back knowing that I would'nt be taken to court until after the event?

The dilemna is... what if it didn't happen??

[WaldoMcFroog]

Kos, there's no need for hookum like Nostradamus. After all, he said it would end on July 4th 1999, so I think we can safely dismiss his opinion. 

However, there's extensive rigerous scientific evidence to tell us that our current abuse of nature is totally unsatstainable. Already we're suffering the atmospheric changes and associated disasters wrought by the behaviour of people in the 1950s. How much worse will it be when our actions wreak their effects in 50 years time?