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Old 12-29-2004, 12:22 PM   #41
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Originally posted by Flame On@Dec 29 2004, 07:13 PM
Did you hear that (Sumatra was it?) one of the islands has actually moved by 36 meters due to the quake! In one of the range of mountains in the region, they're taller by 2 meters and the earth actually wobbled in it's rotation due to the quake. I heard on the radio that it was the energy of about 9000 odd atomic bombs going off.....damn right that'll make some wobble!
I think the stat was actually that it was the energy of one million Hiroshima size A-bombs going off.

Moving Sumatra 36 metres is something though. That's about 125 feet.

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