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December 30, 2004
Timeline for devastating Asian tidal waves
Topics: Southeast Asia Earthquake and TsunamiTurkish Press Dec 30
An interesting article in TurkishPress.com today provides a detailed timeline for all of the events related to the tsunami, begining with the first reports from the Jakarta Geophysical Office and taking you up through today when a relatively light tremor measuring 4.6 was felt in Indonesia that prompted a government warning in India which caused thousands in the south of the country to panic and flee. It also discusses the Indian press accusing government officials of having badly managed early tsunami warnings on December 26 that resulted in the loss of precious time that could have saved lives.
PARIS, Dec 30 (AFP) - Four days after earthquake-driven tidal waves devastated large sections of Asia's coastlines, the death toll reached nearly 119,000 and rescue and relief organisations were grappling with the threat of starvation and disease.
The earthquake that sent the vast barrage of water to swamp several thousand kilometres (miles) of coastline on Sunday measured 9.0 on the Richter scale, the biggest tremor recorded worldwide since one in Chile in 1960 registering 9.5.
-- DEC 26 --
0058 GMT: First reports from the Jakarta Geophysical Office that an earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale hit the north of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The epicentre is located in the Indian Ocean, 250 kilometres (150 miles) northwest of the island. Reports follow that the quake was more powerful at 9.0.
0114: A report by the seismic alert centre in Hawaii which has just recorded the quake off Sumatra.
Thirty minutes after the quake: Sumatra is devastated by a tsunami (sea surge). Aceh province, already ravaged by nearly 30 decades of separatist conflict, is hit by waves of nearly 10 metres (30 feet) high. This region, the worst affected by the disaster, sees dozens of villages wiped off the map. The magnitude of the quake is so strong that it even moves islands.
Continue reading the complete timeline in sequence...
Posted by Hyscience at December 30, 2004 10:29 PM
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