Re: Did the Earth wobble?

From: Bigdakine (bigdakine_at_aol.comGetaGrip)
Date: 12/30/04 

Date: 30 Dec 2004 02:02:40 GMT

>Subject: Did the Earth wobble?
>From: "Clair Inness" inness@iinet.net.au
>Date: 12/28/04 9:32 PM Hawaiian Standard Time
>Message-id: <41d25dec$0$20023$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au>
>
>Googleresearching the 'mechanics' of the Sumatra quake, I came across:
>
>'Paul Tapponnier, head of the tectonics laboratory at the Institut de
>Physique du Globe (IPG), says this earthquake made the earth wobble on its
>axis and permanently changed the geology of the surrounding area.
>
>'He says it was like "flicking a top".

Yup. I still don't know if the day got shorter or longer..

My guess based on the orientation of the fault is a little bit longer..

>
>'US Geological Survey geophysicist Ken Hudnut says the movement of the
>plates, which is thought to have been as much as 20 metres, also shifted
>islands such as Nicobar and Simeulue an unknown distance.
>
>'Mr Tapponnier says some regions of Sumatra south of the equator may have
>been completely swallowed up.'
>
>Also I got the impression from bits of television footage that, at least
>for some places, this was not a classic japanese-picture-type tsunami but
>expressed itself as steadily mounting waves.

If your classic japanese picture type tsunami is based on Hokusai, then your
baseline is not a classic tsunami at all.

Stuart
>
>

Dr. Stuart A. Weinstein
Ewa Beach Institute of Tectonics
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