6.2 EARTH QUAKE BEING REPORTED ON TV....

IF YOU KNOW OF ANY CONTACTS NEAR THE BEACHES IN AND AROUND ASIA "CONTACTED THEM NOW" MAKE THEN AWARE PASS THE WORD NOW.

Magnitude 6.3 SULAWESI, INDONESIA

Sunday, January 23, 2005 at 20:10:12 UTC

Preliminary Earthquake Report

U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center

World Data Center for Seismology, Denver

Versíon en Español

Magnitude 6.3

Date-Time Sunday, January 23, 2005 at 20:10:12 (UTC) - Coordinated Universal Time

Monday, January 24, 2005 at 04:10:12 AM local time at epicenter

Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location 1.25S 119.79E

Depth 10.0 kilometers

Region SULAWESI, INDONESIA

Reference 40 km (25 miles) SSW of Palu, Sulawesi, Indonesia

330 km (205 miles) E of Balikpapan, Kalimantan, Indonesia

430 km (270 miles) N of Ujung Pandang, Sulawesi, Indonesia

1545 km (960 miles) ENE of JAKARTA, Java, Indonesia

Location Quality Error estimate: horizontal +/- 11.6 km; depth fixed by location program

Location Quality

Parameters Nst=45, Nph=45, Dmin=2199.1 km, Rmss=1.25 sec, Erho=11.6 km, Erzz=0 km, Gp=59.0 degrees

Source USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)

Thanks for that update.

A lot depends on where the quake occurred.

Quakes of this magnitude occur in Indonesia a lot more frequently than you imagine.

The danger is when it is under the sea, like the 26th December, which seems to be a rarity.

No mention on any of the news channels at 9am Thailand time.

No danger to Thailand, it seems. Happened off Sulawaesi Island...

Remember that the Richter scale is logarithmic. So, a 9.2 quake has an amplitude 1000 times as great as a 6.2. In terms of energy released, a 6.0 quake is about 30 times as powerful as a 5.0.

So, this current quake pales in comparison with December 26th.

Still, a 6.2 can cause significant damage, especially to poorly constructed buildings.