Posts Tagged ‘Indonesia’

Indonesia Opens Tsunami Museum

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

Indonesia has opened a $5.6 million museum to commemorate the 230,000 people who died in the 2004 Asian tsunami.

The four-level building in hardest-hit Aceh province exhibits photographs of victims, stories of survivors and an electronic simulation of the massive undersea earthquake that triggered the 30-foot-high waves.

It also describes the tremendous outpouring of support from governments, companies and individuals in the aftermath of the Dec. 26, 2004 disaster, which caused death and destruction in a dozen nations.

More than $13 billion was pledged to house and feed survivors and to rebuild devastated coasts.

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New Indonesia Earthquake

Sunday, November 16th, 2008

Twitter feed for quake

Twitter beat news media by nearly an hour with report. First twit was from Indonesia, in fact.

Update:
Tsunami warning cancelled.

Indonesia Quake is opposite side of nation from 2004 quake. Celebes Sea. Danger to Borneo, Philippines, N coast of Indonesian islands

Indonesia quake: Remote locale, 3 am local time now, maybe be hours before we get news from area

Indonesia quake: Quake happened off N coast of Sulawesi, in Celebes Sea. Sea is basin surrounded by Sulawesi, Borneo and Philippines. Celebes Sea tsunami risk limited to those three areas.

USGS

Magnitude 7.5
Date-Time

* Sunday, November 16, 2008 at 17:02:31 UTC
* Monday, November 17, 2008 at 01:02:31 AM at epicenter

Location 1.275°N, 122.103°E
Depth 21 km (13.0 miles) (poorly constrained)
Region MINAHASA, SULAWESI, INDONESIA
Distances 135 km (85 miles) NW of Gorontalo, Sulawesi, Indonesia
305 km (190 miles) W of Manado, Sulawesi, Indonesia
1485 km (920 miles) S of MANILA, Philippines
1890 km (1170 miles) ENE of JAKARTA, Java, Indonesia
Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 7.8 km (4.8 miles); depth +/- 23.8 km (14.8 miles)
Parameters NST=114, Nph=114, Dmin=743 km, Rmss=1.24 sec, Gp= 65°,
M-type=regional moment magnitude (Mw), Version=6