Indonesia has issued a tsunami warning after a 8.7 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Sumatra, causing panic in the western region of Aceh.
The US government’s Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said an Indian Ocean wide tsunami alert was in effect after a quake that the US Geological Survey said was 308 miles south-west of the province’s capital Banda Aceh. The quake was felt as far away as Singapore, Thailand and India...
People in Indonesia are on high alert today after a large 8.7 magnitude earthquake hits the area, leading to a tsunami watch for countries across the Indian ocean.
Prime Minister David Cameron has pledged his support to the people of Indonesia after an earthquake and a powerful aftershock rocked the country's south west coast just hours after he arrived.
Tsunami warnings triggered by a powerful earthquake and aftershock off the coast of Indonesia have been lifted in countries surrounding the Indian Ocean.
An 8.6-magnitude earthquake southwest of Indonesia's Sumatra island on Wednesday morning (GMT) was followed hours later by an 8.2-magnitude aftershock.
Tsunami warnings were issued in countries around the region, including in India, Thailand, Sri Lanka and Indonesia.
Terrified people fled their homes and headed for higher ground, as disaster officials scrambled to assess the nature of the seismic events.
The US Geological Survey said the first quake originated 20 miles (33km) underground and 271 miles (437km) from Banda Aceh, on Sumatra.
The second incident was detected 10 miles (16km) beneath the ocean floor and some 383 miles (617km) from the Indonesian town.
Just before the powerful aftershock, reports had said the sea at Simeulue Island, south of Sumatra, had receded by about 10 metres.
Click above link SkyNews report for more inc. video
M8.6 (that is enormous)
Location; Latitude +2.3deg (ie 2.3 degN) Indonesia confirming Pacific ring, Northern Hemisphere (if only just)
Depth 22.9 Km
Date and time 11th 08:38:37s UT within our +/-1day uncertainty of 8-10th (in this case within half a day = close edge period see below)
The depth puts it in the DEEP rather than shallow event category. Such a large quake at that depth is enormous energy. This backs up the comments by our main monitor(s) that our R4 and R5 QV quakes appear to be DEEP events.
It was preceded one hour earlier by an immensely deep 132km quake of M5.3 about 2000 miles away in the Banda sea, which was probably connected.
Timings note.
Since a measurement of one unit must be uncertain to half a unit we should really do three categories of timing
(a) narrow period eg 8-10th
(b) close edge period +/- half day eg 7.5 to 10.5 eg THIS ONE
(c) wider +/- one day which would be 7-11th full days.
also we might try and put timing to half a day in future because sometimes I am not sure which way to move a boundary to get it onto a specific date.
I suggest also have a look at previous CR post and last few comments - link above. Note
(i) The fact there wasn't much on the sun other than the Earth facing coronal hole supports our view that such is important and visible action is not the key - see my note to Emmet.
(ii) The Russian Kamchatka forecasted quake was not this, but they've given themselves until June 30th.
I strongly urge - and I make no apology for saying so - people who want to follow or support this work to buy quake or weather forecasts because it is only through such sales ANY of this is possible. Given the almost total control of CO2 ideology on funding it is very unlikely we will ever get any funding for science that works.
For full Quakes forecast for April is available on
=> Extreme Events Rest Of World
AND AS AN EASTER/APRIL GIFT ALSO WITH
=> B+I 45day (inc 30d) forecasts AND
=> EUROMAPS (pressure scenarios and Words)
The link is:
Posted by Kevin Mannerings (Twitter) on Apr 12th 2012, 1:42 PM EDT
Earthquake statistics for 11 April on USGS are not yet fully reviewed, so these comments are preliminary. However, two points Piers Corbyn is making appear to be confirmed. There was a swing from shallow to deep quakes and a swing to the northern hemisphere on 11 April. This contrasts with Corbyn's predictions for February, which also showed a big swing to deep quakes but initially in the southern hemisphere, as he predicted.
The big quakes in Indonesia itself were, according to the USGS not deep. However there were ten deep quakes (>30km) on the same day with several very deep quakes from 100 to 500 km deep.
Here are the USGS figures for the big quakes.
8.2 2012/04/11 10:43:09 0.773 92.452 16.4 km deep OFF THE WEST COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATRA
8.6 2012/04/11 08:38:37 2.311 93.063 22.9 km deep OFF THE WEST COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATRA
Would like to say that my statistics have been done during rare lulls in other work and do not yet have the quality and rigour expected of scientific analysis. Anyone interested in helping on an open basis can get in touch.
That being said, there is exciting preliminary evidence that when solar wind is buffeting the earth's magnetic shield from coronal holes as predicted by Corbyn, there is an increase in deep quakes which is significant and deserving serious study.
There is also the possibility of using Fourier analysis to find out whether there are other rhythmic factors at work apart from the solar wind.
Please note that this work is at a very early trial stage.
Kevin Mannerings
Comment edited by Kevin Mannerings (Twitter) on Friday April 13, 2012 at 11:39 AM EDT
Posted by Piers Corbyn (Twitter) on Apr 12th 2012, 10:26 PM EDT
Further comment from Piers (just back from the Kent Freedom Movement meeting in Gravesend which was attended by the local Member of Parliament and had good discussion on quake matters, weather+Climate and HAARP (US GOV artificial influencing of ionosphere and...)
Thanks for that Report Kevin.
So it seems we can say - SO FAR - and we now have a string of results Feb, March and start April.
When our SLAT7(Q) forecast predicts R4 or R5 quake events they have come:
- in the periods predicted (within half a day, and usually in tight period);
- in the hemisphere of earth predicted (in all cases so far);
- and are extra major (eg M6.5+) when we have warned of that;
- and (and this is apparent thanks to Kevin's monitoring) are associated with deep quake events although the main big hit result itself might not be (very) deep.
Quake-Volcano trial, Red Weather warnings and Tornado-thunder risk forecasts (RTQ forecasts) are available via links in my posting above either alone or with other weather forecasts
At the KFM Meeting I was asked about HAARP and confirmed that HAARP is real and is being used to influence the ionosphere (and other things?) for secret purposes.
As to whether it could set off weather or earthquake events I said I thought it could only do that IF the natural stage was already set for events to happen.
We at WeatherAction now have a fair number of successful predictions of major quakes and many of extreme weather events and it is unlikely that HAARP have been switching on just to give us a quake or storm!
Nevertheless since earthquakes and extreme weather storm events are results of critical processes 'waiting to happen' and are triggered by the huge energies in the solar wind (but which are small compared with the light radiation from the sun) it IS possible that some events could be made to come early or changed by artificial influences - eg HAARP (or cloud seeding**) - at critical times, which although, tiny compared with solar wind flux could make a difference in the right place at the right time.
All were urged to watch this space.
[**cloud seeding - getting clouds to drop rain or snow early by dropping catalytic droplet forming substances in them - silver iodide or solid CO2 (cheaper!) is real]
Aside. I note someone on twitter said that HAARP could (but is this true?) be used to destabilise the electronics of rocketry and that the North Korean rocket just crashed.
Comment edited by Piers Corbyn (Twitter) on Friday April 13, 2012 at 2:42 PM EDT
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Details on USGS:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_big.php
M8.6 (that is enormous)
Location; Latitude +2.3deg (ie 2.3 degN) Indonesia confirming Pacific ring, Northern Hemisphere (if only just)
Depth 22.9 Km
Date and time 11th 08:38:37s UT within our +/-1day uncertainty of 8-10th (in this case within half a day = close edge period see below)
The depth puts it in the DEEP rather than shallow event category. Such a large quake at that depth is enormous energy. This backs up the comments by our main monitor(s) that our R4 and R5 QV quakes appear to be DEEP events.
It was preceded one hour earlier by an immensely deep 132km quake of M5.3 about 2000 miles away in the Banda sea, which was probably connected.
Timings note.
Since a measurement of one unit must be uncertain to half a unit we should really do three categories of timing
(a) narrow period eg 8-10th
(b) close edge period +/- half day eg 7.5 to 10.5 eg THIS ONE
(c) wider +/- one day which would be 7-11th full days.
also we might try and put timing to half a day in future because sometimes I am not sure which way to move a boundary to get it onto a specific date.
I suggest also have a look at previous CR post and last few comments - link above. Note
(i) The fact there wasn't much on the sun other than the Earth facing coronal hole supports our view that such is important and visible action is not the key - see my note to Emmet.
(ii) The Russian Kamchatka forecasted quake was not this, but they've given themselves until June 30th.
I strongly urge - and I make no apology for saying so - people who want to follow or support this work to buy quake or weather forecasts because it is only through such sales ANY of this is possible.
Given the almost total control of CO2 ideology on funding it is very unlikely we will ever get any funding for science that works.
For full Quakes forecast for April is available on
=> Extreme Events Rest Of World
AND AS AN EASTER/APRIL GIFT ALSO WITH
=> B+I 45day (inc 30d) forecasts AND
=> EUROMAPS (pressure scenarios and Words)
The link is:
http://www.weatheraction.com/wactmember5.asp
I thank all who have subscribed in the past and THANK YOU IN ADVANCE if you now decide to also subscribe.
I suggest rather than continue discussion on last quake entry people comment via this one.
Cheers Piers