7.6 Earthquake Near Adaman Islands

[Carmine6]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recent...db2.php#details

CNBC ticker just crossed this. No other info that I could find so far other than the US Geological Survey website. On the map it is up toward Myanmar.

There was some ticker about Tsunami warning, but I missed whether there was one or was not one.

Please be careful on the western coastal areas until more info comes out.

[LaoPo]

JAPAN as well:

Strong quake jolts Japan, felt in Tokyo

Tuesday August 11, 2009 05:32:20 PM GMT

Reuters News

JAPAN-QUAKE/ (URGENT)

TOKYO, Aug 11 (Reuters) - A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.6 jolted eastern and central Japan on Tuesday, a government agency said, rattling houses in Tokyo.

The quake, which struck at 0507 a.m. (2007 GMT, Monday), prompted a tsunami warning for waves of up to 50 cm (20 inches) for parts of the Pacific coast, the Japan Meteorological Agency said on its Website (www.jma.go.jp).

A highway was closed and a Chubu Electric Power nuclear power station at Hamaoka shut two units for safety checks.

The focus of the tremor was 20 km (12 miles) deep under Shizuoka prefecture, around 150 km (90 miles) southwest of Tokyo, the agency said.

Reuters

LaoPo

[LaoPo]

Magnitude 7.6 quake hits off India's Andaman Islands

Mon Aug 10, 2009 4:43pm EDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A massive magnitude 7.6 quake struck in the Indian Ocean off India's Andaman Islands, triggering a tsunami watch for India, Myanmar, Indonesia, Thailand and Bangladesh, the U.S. Geological Survey reported on Monday.

The USGS said the quake, initially reported as a magnitude 7.7, was 20.6 miles deep and was centered 160 miles north of Port Blair in the Andaman Islands.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued a tsunami watch for the region.

Source: Reuters

LaoPo

[Harcourt]

So East and West of Thai.

Mind you, 50 cm.....not very alarming.

[meandwi]

Here is the site that predicts tsunami arrival times.

http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/messages/indi...8.10.200514.txt

From this site.

http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/

Edited August 10, 2009 by meandwi

[LaoPo]

.... ...and the quake happens on the same day as this news was released:

Tsunami Warning Buoy For Phuket Now Dead In The Water

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Tsunami-Warn...ad-t287615.html

LaoPo

[LaoPo]

BREAKING NEWS

Major earthquakes strike near Japan, Myanmar

Updated Mon. Aug. 10 2009 4:53 PM ET

CTV.ca News Staff

A 6.4-magnitude earthquake has truck near the south coast of Honshu, Japan, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, within 15 minutes of a 7.6 tremor near India's Andaman Islands.

The quake near Japan hit just after 4 p.m. ET, about 31 kilometres from land. The epicentre was 170 km from Tokyo.

Roughly 12 minutes earlier, the 7.6 quake hit north of the Andaman Islands, south of Myanmar, triggering a tsunami alert.

The epicentre was about 260 kilometres north of Port Blair, the Andaman capital.

There have been no reports of injuries or damage to buildings.

Developing story...

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/stor...90810?hub=World

LaoPo

[jpolten]

CNN are reporting that the quake DID generate a tsunami but they don't know how big!!

I think there's going to be some trouble over this buoy off phuket if another wave hits!!

Hope they are letting people on the coast know of this quake!

[Datsun240Z]

2012: End of the world.

[photojourn]

ETA Phuket 5.44am

[LaoPo]

The quake struck around 263 kilometres (163 miles) north of Port Blair, the main town in the Andamans, and was around 33 kilometres (20.2 miles) deep, said a USGS statement.

A link, showing where Port Blair (capital on South Andaman Island) exactly is on the Andaman Islands; opposite the West Coast of Thailand:

http://maps.google.nl/maps?hl=en&q=por...amp;t=h&z=7 SATELLITE

AND

http://maps.google.nl/maps?hl=en&q=por....634521&z=7 MAP

On the lower right of both maps you can still see Phuket.

LaoPo

[jpolten]

Anyone reading this in phuket or on the west coast??

Are they warning people there??

[sbk]

tsunami alert issued

[Maestro]

Continued here: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Asian-Tsunam...ed-t287831.html